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MARCH RIGHT ALON<or. 


BY REV. WM. D. POTTS, M. D. 


Tune— Marching Along. 


i. 

Th’ FREEMEN, next November of eighteen sixty-four, 

Will march in solid phalanx and end this CRUEL WAR ; 
Because they see it’s not to save the Union, 

As “Abe” declared that it should be, when it was first begun.. 
Chorus—March right along, noble braves march along; 

McClellan is our leader, so" march right along; 
The conflict, though raging, will surely end ere long, 
For Truth conquers Error, and Right must con¬ 
quer Wrong. 

ii. . 

Abe, Seward, and Greeley, Chase, Beecher, and Co., 

Made very loud pretensions to Freedom, you know ; 

“Free men” and “ Free speech,” “Free homes,” were their 
cry! 

And now for every Black Man freed twenty White Men die. 
Chorus—March right along, &c. 


“ It’s time we had a change in th’ Government,” was the cry, 

“ Th’ Democrats have robbed th’ Land, they’ll ruin it,” for,: aye 
Thus the people were deceived, they voted for Lincoln!; i 
And made him the Commander Chief then the change begun. 
Chorus—March right along, &c. 


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The Democrats proclaimed, with tears at ev’ry door, 

Should Abe be the President, “ Good Times” would bo no more; 

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INTRODUCTION. 

/ ___ 

Fellow Freemen : — I address you in behalf of Humanity, 
and in the name of all that is precious on earth and glorious in 
Heaven. 

The Object of “The Guide,” 
is the restoration of our Country to its pristine 
Union, Peace, and Prosperity. 

That, indeed, is a momentous work, and can only be accom¬ 
plished by the absolute overthrow of Abolition power as repre¬ 
sented by his Excellency, Abraham Lincoln & Co. 

JS3T How can that despotic power be overthrown ? 

Only, But Surely, 

By A United Democracy, 

FOR THE SAKE OF OUR COUNTRY, 

In the Use of Every Laudable Measure, 

For the Election of 

GENERAL GEORGE BRINTON McCLELLAN 

To the Highest Office^ 

In the Gift 
of 

American Freemen ! 

In “ The Guide,” you shall have the truth, and the whole— 
essential—truth concerning our National affairs, which will fur¬ 
nish the following advantages to the candid and Conservative in¬ 
quirers : 

It will convince them 

That they have been deceived by Lincoln & Co. 

That the Lincoln Administration Party is sectional—anti-Na- 
tional. 



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That Lincoln & Co. have no special regard for the Flag, the 
Constitution, or the Union, only as they subserve their selfish 
ends. 

That Lincoln & Co. are the most dangerous Abolitionists in 
our country ; and are opposed to the Government of our fore¬ 
fathers. 

That Lincoln & Co. are the Authors of Secession ; and com¬ 
pelled the South to secede. 

That Lincoln & Co. are the Authors of the War. 

That Lincoln & C o. forced the South to “ fire the first gun.” 

That Lincoln & Co. could have prevented the War. 

That Lincoln & Co. aspire to JE®' 3 ’ free the slaves,—to enfran¬ 
chise them,—to overthrow Democracy, and to establish a Mon¬ 
archical Government. 

N. B. The above are proved by their Teachings before 
their accession to power, and their unholy measures since.) 

Furthermore, they will be convinced 

That the hope of our Country is in Democracy. 

That the Abolition Power—Lincoln, Fremont & Co.—must 
be overthrown, or farewell to Liberty, to Home, and all that is 
worth living for. 

That it is the duty of the Conservatives, whether Ministers, 
Mechanics or Merchants, Farmers, Clerks or Artisans, Physicians, 
Printers or Soldiers, it is alike the interests of all who depend upon 
the natural resources of their respective branches of industry, 
to work and vote for Democracy, and thereby secure future 
Independence for themselves and their posterity. 

That every lover of his Country will so vote. 

That none but War speculators, Government contractors, and 
shoddyites, their dupes, friends, and dependents, will vote for 
Lincoln 

If you will read “The Guide” soberly, prayerfully, and 
impartially, as every lover of his Country, at its present crisis, 
should do, you will be convinced that the above and ensuing re¬ 
marks are true and worthy of your credence and respect. 

I submit my sincere and humble effort and its consequences to 
God, McClellan, and my Countrymen. 


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CHAPTER FIRST. 

Republican-Abolitionism 
Considered.—“ What is it V * —How it came into Power. 

Flease observe, that in my animadversions of the Republican 
Party, I allude chiefly to the Republican Leaders, because a large 
majority of the Republicans, being conservative, voted for Abra¬ 
ham Lincoln in good faith, and are not responsible for his uncon¬ 
stitutional and tyrannical measures. 

None but Abolitiouists can endorse Mr. Lincoln’s Policy. 

Republican-Abolitionism is practically an anti-Slavery 
{ oligarchy, founded on a claim to direct the consciences of men. 

It proclaims from the Pulpit and Press that it is treason for 
Freemen of America to criticise their employees, which Lincoln 
& Co. are. 

Proofs that Lincoln & Co. are Abolitionists. 

They have Abolished the Constitution ; 

They have Abolished the Union, by 

Abolishing the sympathy which existed between the North 
and South ; 

They have Abolished the Freedom of Speech and of the Press ; 

They have Abolished the moral and civil dignity of our Na¬ 
tion ; 

They have Abolished the Christian Religion—“ Peace on earth, 
good will to men 

They have Abolished personal security throughout our land ; 

They have Abolished our gold and silver coin ; 

They have Abolished Slavery in the South ; 

They have Abolished Freedom in the North ; 

They have Abolished the Habeas Corpus ; 

They have Abolished the right of trial by jury ; 

They have Abolished the rights of American citizens ; 


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They have Abolished hundreds of thousands of our best citi¬ 
zens. 

Our hope is that they will Abolish themselves out of exist¬ 
ence. 

The Characteristics of the Republican-Abolition Leaders are 
Duplicity, Deception, and Despotism. 

They came into power by 

Blindfolding Innocence, 

Misrepresenting Truths, 

Denying Facts, 

and promising what they never expected to fulfill. 

No age of the world ever witnessed such heart-degrading dis¬ 
plays of deception, imposition and depravity as have been continu¬ 
ously practiced by the leaders of the Republican Party,—now 
falsely called the National Union Party. 

Their “ Free Homes, Free Speech and Free men’s ” (Negros’) 
schemes were unsurpassed for deception, and yet it was surpris¬ 
ing how readily and greedily many people gobbled the doctrine 
as if Freedom was a foreign commodity, and introduced for the 
first time in oppressed and wretched America. 

*********** 

The Scoundrels that Robbed our Nation ! 

The Assassins that Murdered her Sons ! 

Who are they ? 

There was another nefarious deception practiced upon the un¬ 
suspecting. I allude to their pretended regard for the welfare 
of our Country. Assuming to be its Saviours, they feigned to 
yearn over its interests, and they startled the world with the cry, 
How can we save our Country ? It is going headlong to de¬ 
struction 1 The Democrats have been in power too long for the 
good of our land ! We must break them down or they will 
break down our Republic. There is no soundness in them. They 
are rotten from head to foot. 

So they proposed a change upon the plea of “ Necessity ” We 
must have a change, they said. The preservation of our Country 
makes it a Necessity. The unsuspecting masses accepted the pro¬ 
position : the more readily because they had been repeatedly told 


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by parties whom they supposed were trustwortoy,—many of 
them professing piety and holding high positions in their respec¬ 
tive churches—that the Democrats had been robbing our Nation, 
that bankruptcy and civil war would ensue if they were not 
routed from the seat of Government. We must overthrow them, 
they said, and fill their places with 

Upright and Honest Men ! ! 

0, Ah ! Alas ! 

A change was effected, and his majesty, the Devil, with all his 
wiles, could not have made it more deplorable. 

What are the Benefits of the Republican Party ? 

Let the reign of Abraham Lincoln speak ! 

Let the 200,000 Sro/iwi-hearted widows speak ! 

Let the 800,000 orphans speak 1 

Let the desolated homes—the broken up families speak ! 

Let the ruin and contumely they have caused by fire and sword , 
by robbery and murder, by tyranny and taxation, speak 1 

Let the inhuman incarceration of faithful Democrats without 
any provocation, save that they expressed their honest convic¬ 
tions relative to the condition of our Country—let their illegal 
and tyrannical imprisonment speak ! 

Let a once proud and powerful nation, now throttled, floored, 
and struggling for its very existence, speak ! 

Let all humanity, stripped, lacerated, and bleeding at every 
pore, speak ! 

Let the 800,000 premature graves in Lincoln’s patent cemete¬ 
ries, on laud and in deep seas, speak 1 

Let beloved husbands and doting fathers persuaded or forced 
from their dependent and loved ones, speak 1 

Let all speak, and tell us who the villains are 
That Robbed our Nation ! 

Overthrew Her Institutions 1 ! 

And Murdered Her Sons ! ! ! 

Let all speak and tell us for what ? 

Alas ! Alas 1 ! 

To Sustain a Whim I 
To Gratify Lust ! 


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To Attain to Power ! 

And their Golden Coffers fill! 

Ay, Ay, I see, 

Their Golden Coffers fill! 

Not with Greenbacks, 

They make by stacks, 

For Whites and Blacks, 

All bathed in human gore ! 

But Gold, Gold, Gold, 

The wretched vandals stoled, 

’Tis. Gold ! O tempore, O more ! 

The short but bloody reign of Mr. Lincoln entitles him and his 
Cabinet to an equality, in rank, with the savage Chiefs of the re¬ 
motest forests. 

I speak as I believe, in all sincerity, and with a jealous regard 
for my Country. 

We warned the conservative masses against Mr. Lincoln and 
his co-shoddy leaders in 1860. But we could not convince them 
that our Country resigned into their hands would be its Over¬ 
throw ! But sad circumstances since have convinced them that 
Democracy prophesied truthfully. 

We told them that if Mr. Lincoln should be elected the South 
would secede. 

The Republicans called us Kars, and said, “We can’t kick 
them out.” 

We told them that Mr. Lincoln’s election would result in a se¬ 
rious, desolating and degrading war. 

The Republican Leaders, Lincoln & Co., called us liars and 
fools, for intimating that a population of Eight Millions would un¬ 
dertake to defend themselves by the sword against a population 
of Twenty Millions. That the supposition was absurd. That 
they could not fight if they should desire to, because they were 
deficient in arms as w T ell as in men, who were principally negroes 
and a few gentlemen not inured to hardships. Besides they 
could not be tempted to fight, because their negroes would rise 
up against them and massacre them by thousands. 


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We told them that the South could not be subdued, and an 
attempt to bring them back to the Union by an armed force, 
would widen the breach, and finally overthrow our Government; 
that Conciliation and Compromise, with Eqnity, would bring 
them back. 

I recollect speaking in this wise to a Minister, who was too 
pious to swear, of course, and he said, “ You are a condemned 
liar.” 

The Republican Leaders said the same, only not so clerical in 
language, and added that even “ In case of war, a few thousand 
soldiers would drive the Southern cowards into the Gulf of Mex¬ 
ico in a trice.” And because we recommended an exhaustion of 
conciliatory measures, before we took up arms against the South, 
they charged us with Treason, called us Secessionists and Trai¬ 
tors, and shut us up in their Bastiles. 

Conservative Republicans, you have shared with us, in part, 
the bitter fruits of the deception, duplicity and falsehood prac¬ 
ticed by your Leaders. You did not see it then. Now you see, 
hear, and feel too. Will you be deceived by them again ? Can 
anything they tell you now, have any weight upon your mind 
whatever ? Have they not rendered themselves unworthy of 
your credit, respect and support ? 

“ That Reminds Me of a Story ” 
of a venerable Quaker, who said to a rogue, “ Thee cheated me 
this time, that is thy fault; but if thee ever cheets me again, it 
will be my fault.” 

“ The Era of Righteousness and Peace.” 

“ When the present party came into power, it claimed to be, 
par excellence, the party of virtue and integrity. A Rcpublicau 
paper—an extract from which now lies before us—exclaimed, 
when Lincoln was elected, ‘ Victorious at last ! A new era 
dawns upon our country—the era of Righteousness and Peace P 
Ye gods, Peace ! Have we not had it with a vengeance ? 
Blood has flowed like water, until the hearts of people have be¬ 
come callous to human sacrifices and sufferings. Again, this 
paper says, ‘ the age of purity returns.’ Think of that. ‘ The age 
of parity,’ when Washington city has become so demoralized that 

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tl»e prostitution of women, and the corruption and dishonesty of 
men, seem to have become the rule rather than the exception. 

‘ The age of purity,’ when there was more money stolen, accord¬ 
ing even to a Republican, during the first year of Mr. Lincoln’s 
administration, than was expended in any one year of Mr. Bu¬ 
chanan’s for the entire expenses of the government. Again, the 
same paper says, ‘ The thieves and plunderers that have cursed us 
so long, are thrust aside by the people to make way for an honest 
man to rule, and honest people to assist him. And, in due time, 
the Augean stables will be cleansed, the Treasury rats will be 
dislodged, and the government wisely and honestly administered, 
will cease to be a curse, and be once more a blessing and an hon¬ 
or to the land P 

Such were some of the promises held out to the people as the 
results of electing Mr. Lincoln. But was there ever an instance 
ofesuch a difference between promising and performing as this 
Administration has shown ? Instead of peace, we have war. 
Instead of honesty, the most unblushing corruption. Instead of 
virtue and integrity among the people, the widest spread and 
most deplorable demoralization ever known in the history of our 
country. It is wicked to shut our eyes to these facts. The pre¬ 
sent Administration has demoralized the people more in three 
years than they have been demoralized during the whole former 
period of our history, since the heroic days of ‘the Revolution. 
It has made honesty and integrity among men a sneer, and 
almost a reproach, until it has come to be a common remark, ‘ why 
not go in and make all we can, as the favorites of the Adminis¬ 
tration are doing ?’ Such is the ‘ era of virtue ’ promised us by 
‘ the party of purity.’ 

Now, the reason why this party do this is, or ought to be, ap¬ 
parent to every friend of republican government. In all ages of 
the world, it has been the trick of the enemies of free institutions, 
when paving the way for a monarchical government, to first de¬ 
moralize and corrupt the people. Hence it is that the present 
Administration desire to run the country into debt—to have pro¬ 
fuse and reckless expenditures ; to buy up by contracts the 
venal; to break down the honest who spurn their corruption, and 


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in a word, to run the country into excesses of all sorts, that they 
may drive the people to begin to say, ‘ well, republican institu¬ 
tions are a failure. Give us a king ; give us anything to save us 
from general wreck and final ruin/ This is the desperate game 
the present party is now playing. They have no intention of 
either maintaining or restoring this republican government. They 
would doubtless prefer to have it all intact under one central 
power, the States all being in the condition they propose to place 
the South, mere provinces and dependencies, and the citizens col¬ 
onists and vassals. Then the time would have arrived which Mr. 
Jefferson often feared would come, when the Democratic senti¬ 
ment would be overwhelmed, and the British Tory doctrines once 
more triumphant, the labors and sacrifices of the men of the Re¬ 
volution would all be for naught. But God forbid that Demo¬ 
crats should ever be so recreant to their duty as to allow this to 
take place.” 

Rogues and Thieves. 

“ Lincoln’s Administration has produced more rogues and 
thieves than any ten previous Administrations. They are spring¬ 
ing up everywhere like noxious weeds. Army plunder is a great 
fertilizer, and the land is made to produce plentifully. 

“ A number of years ago, during the sitting of the Legislature 
at Hartford, Connecticut, when politics ran high, a half-crazed 
man appeared in the streets with a basket on his arm, and, with 
a loud voice, went through the motion of sowing as fast as he 
could : * Rogues and Thieves; Rogues and Thieves P 

“ Some one went to him, and said, ‘ Why do you sow “rogues 
and thieves ?” Why don’t you sow “ righteousness and truth ?” 9 
lie stopped a moment and began to sow, very slowly, ‘ Right- 
eousness and Truth P but soon stopped, and said, ‘ Ah, the land 
won't hear it ,’ and began again to sow * Rogues and Thieves P 

“ ‘ Whatsoever a man sows, that shall he reap !’ When the 
people planted the Abolitionists in power, they were sowing 
‘ rogues and thieves,’ and are now reaping a plentiful crop.” 

Abolition Demagogues. 

“ Men lie and deceive the people, they use money and corrupt 
some of the people, and they use force and compel, or intimidate 


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part of the people, and by these means they get into office, and 
then to fill their pockets, they involve a happy and peaceful 
country in war, and if you say aught against them you are a 
traitor and deserve death ; and then they seize the people and 
hurry them to destruction by millions, while they proceed to rob 
the remainder of what they have to pay expenses, and make their 
own profits. This is Abolition liberty. A fouler, viler, falser set 
of knaves, a more blatant gang of insolent hypocrites, never pol¬ 
luted the fair earth with their presence. Their idea of liberty is, 
that they be allowed to do as they please with everybody else, 
and their equality is the equal suffering of the damned : 

“ Such as do build their faith upon 
The holy text of pike and gun ; 

Decide all controversy by 
Infallible artillery: 

And prove their doctrine orthodox 
By Apostolic blows and knocks ; 

Call fire and sword, and desolation, 

A godly—thorough—Reformation, 

"Which always must be carried on, 

And still be doing, never done.” 

Shoddy-Contractors, 

Who circulate about this administration and demand that 
Abraham Lincoln shall be re-elected for the Presidency, .are 
making millions of dollars out of the public treasury. They are 
becoming immensely rich, and it is intimated that a portion of 
them are already estimating their chances of becoming the ‘ Lords’ 
and high titled nobility, or Aristocracy of Wealth, under a des¬ 
potism to come not far in the future. Ben. Butler ought to be 
a Duke, Viscount, or a “ discount.” 

The Diversity of Sentiment 
upon National affairs. 

That there should be such a diversity of opinion upon 
matters pertaining to our Nation, where the freedom of 
Speech and of the Press is tolerated and so liberally patron¬ 
ized, is passingly strange. But the “sober second thought” 
explains the cause. 


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The abolition preachers have done more to produce dis¬ 
satisfaction, discord and death than all other satanic agencies 
combined. They turned the hearts of the Northern people 
against the South, by misrepresenting Southern character, 
the nature of their Institutions, the general condition of their 
slaves, and their feeling toward the Northern citizens. 
They declared, through their Press and Pulpits, that South¬ 
ern people despised their brethren of the Northern states,— 
that they hated their Institutions of Religion and Education. 
And they knew, certainly, that they were speaking falsely, 
and misrepresenting the South shamefully. Yet the Repub¬ 
lican Leaders, and Preachers and Press reiterated these 
falsifications to beget a malignant feeling against the South. 
Horace Greely said, more than twenty years ago, that it 
should be the principal aim of his newspaper to teach the 
North to hate the South until the curse of Slavery should be 
removed from our Country. 

We have been taught to respect the Clergy and credit 
their preaching. But we are compelled to fear that Satan 
has assumed the ministerial office, and occupies, unmolested, 
a large proportion of the pulpits, spreading enmity and de¬ 
struction all around ! 

But the people are being undeceived. They are beginning 
to learn the true character of Southern society—that they 
are not heathens and barbarians ; that they are not pol¬ 
troons and perjurers, and that our Institutions have never 
been endangered by the South whatever. Not only so, but 
they see that the South have been extensive contributors to 
our Institutions. 

Prof. Hart, in the course of his address, at the late com¬ 
mencement of Princeton College, N. J., made an eloquent 
appeal for the endowment of the college. He said “ that since 
the breaking out of the Rebellion, all its resources, apart 
from tuition, amounted to only about four thousand dollars 
annually. ,, 

Let us hear nothing more against the Southern citizens on 
the ground of their disposition to break down our Free Insti- 


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tutions. They have never uttered a single word against our 
Institutions, and he is a villifier who says they have. 

Ah, my fellow Freemen ! you have never known half the 
injustice and villainy practised upon the Southern people by 
the disguised Abolitionists. They have made the pious and 
the benevolent of our North believe that the slaves are 
treated worse than brutes are by Northern Lords. But the 
intelligent philanthropist has reason to rejoice that, before 
Abolitionism made its inhuman raids in Southern society, 
the African slave was in a far better condition than tho 
African free. 

In my perambulations through the South, which were 
somewhat extensive, I have had occasions to praise God for 
his Wisdom and Providence, as seen in the moral, social and 
physical comforts of the millions of slaves South, while so 
few Noith are better than beggars—poor, despised, wronged 
on every hand, and, virtually, greater slaves than their 
kindred bondmen of the South—the difference being in favor 
of the latter ; as they were always well provided for in sick¬ 
ness as in health—which is not the case with the poor, 
down-trodden Negro of the North, who barely sustains a 
beggarly existence upon the cold charities of the wrnrld, and 
finally dies, ah, a loathsome pauper 1 

I can prove, to any candid person, that the universally 
despised Northern slave is a hundred-fold more the child of 
Pity, than the well provided for slave of the South, taking 
all things into consideration. 

Who Deserves to be Hung ? 

I have no desire for any man to be hung, but if there is 
one who deserves such punishment it is 

The Sneaking, Disguised Abolition Impostor, 
who stalks about our streets, occupies our Pulpits, and con¬ 
trols the Press under the cloak of Republicanism ; who 
makes a degrading use of that name to enlist the attention 
and sympathy of the masses, to introduce and propagate his 
incendiary doctrines; to sow the seeds of discord, dishonor, 
and destruction ; to destroy the nationality of our Country, 


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by dividing it into sections, and setting states at variance 
with each other. Eulogizing the North and degrading 
the South ; misrepresenting their Religion, their Morals, 
their social relations ; denouncing their Institutions as bar¬ 
barous and all that held slaves barbarians ; and charging 
them falsely with being opposed to the Institutions of the 
North. And, to create a separation of the States, elected a 
man to the Presidency who is opposed to the interests and the 
Institutions of the South, and pledged to rob them of their 
territories, an.d overthrow their domestic Institutions ; who 
is inexorable and uncompromising, and finally involved the 
Land in barbarous hostilities ; deluged it with blood ; filled 
it with widows and orphans ; destroyed our commerce ; 
crushed the hopes of the honest and honorable producers; 
dragged .men from their homes, their dependent wives and 
loved ones ; compelled them to raise the sword against their 
fellow-citizens, who have never wronged them an iota— 

To Degrade the White Man; 

To Elevate the Negro; 

To Destroy our Government; 

and nothing under the sun to gain by it, but to gratify a 
few, and a very few, vain, ambitious aspirants—political 
demagogues—and to enrich them at the expense of our Lib¬ 
erties, our Government, our honor, our homes, our manhood, 
and every thing worth living far. 

Men, whether Preachers or Pedlers, that will do these 
things, or look on and see them done without a word of re¬ 
monstrance or opposition, do not deserve the name of Ameri¬ 
cans, and have rendered themselves unworthy the Freedom 
of Americans. 

No man deserves the benefits of a Free Republic who can 
not say from the depth of his heart— 

Every State shall be Free 
To Regulate its own Institutions, 

Slavery or No Slavery; 

As in the Days of our Fathers ; 

Free and Unmolested by other States, 


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From Agitation, Legislation, Fire and Sword: 

Union of All the States, 

Now, as Ever, 

And Forever ! 

He whose heart cherishes these sentiments, of fealty to his 
country, and cheerfully resigns his life to promote them, is 
Loyal to His Country. 

He that does not, is a Traitor. 

Fellow Freemen :—I must warn you against the disguised 
Abolitionists, who, to deceive you, and wheedle you into their 
Treason and interests, have assumed the name Republican. 

JB6T* Remember I mean the Leaders, NOT the conser¬ 

vative masses that were deceived by them, and whom I more par¬ 
ticularly, and most respectfully, address. 

These unholy Demagogues have striven to perpetuate their 
power by robbing Freemen of their Sacred Rights. 

They are stimulated and assisted—unfortunately for the mor¬ 
als of our Country—by 

A Fighting Clergy, 

Who “ stole the livery of Heaven to serve” Mr. Lincoln in. 

But for the successful resistance of Jeffersonian Democracy, 
our imperiled Country would have been forever wrested from the 
hands of Freemen. 

Rejoice, lovers of Freedom, and let the whole earth praise God 
for Democracy. 

*********** 

Republican-Abolitionism suppresses Free Speech and Free 
Press, where it dares ; because Freedom limits and must eventu¬ 
ally annihilate Error, Injustice and Oppression. 

The Republican-Abolition Leaders, with few exceptions, are 
descendants of the Tories who infested our Country during the 
Revolutionary struggles for Independence. They have ever been 
the opponents of Democracy, under their varied cognomens which 
they assumed to distinguish themselves at the respective elections. 
Their name is legion : 


IT 

Federal-Whigs, Not “ Old Line!” 

Democratic-W higs, 

N ative-Americans, 

KnO W-N OTHINGS, 

Barn-Burners, 

FREE-S OILERS, 

Republicans, 

Union Loyal Leagues, 
with a few reserve corps, viz : 

Fourierites, Spiritualists and Free Lovers, 
and last, not least, but ah ! 

National-U nionists, 
with a peculiar protuberance called 

Radical Democrats. 

Indeed they will assume any name by which they can deceive 
the conservative masses, and successfully oppose Democracy, the 
Life and Glory of our Land. 

In fact they are obliged to do so from their repulsiveness to 
the conservatives, or find themselves, nowhere, after election. 

They came into power under the garb of Republicans. But. 
whatever garb they may assume again, they must^o out with the 
anathemas of Freemen. 

Assuming a new name and making great pretensions to Philan¬ 
thropy, they secure the votes of many who have no time or means 
to investigate their claims. 

“ That Reminds Me of a Story.” 

A Quaker being implored to join the Union League, replied : 
“ Friend, thee changest thy name too often ; I have known thee 
as a Whig, as a Free Soiler, as a Native American, as a Know 
Nothing, as a Republican, as a sneerer at the Union, as a friend 
of the Union, as a Loyal Leaguer, and thou recollectest how 
many more titles, and I cannot trust thee. When brother Obed 
fell from grace and became a rogue, he changed his name, and I 
have found that whenever men design making their living by dis¬ 
honest means, they are always likely to do the same. If ever 
thee adopts one name and set of principles, and hangs on to 
them for fifty years, as the Democrats have done, I may begin to 
trust thee.” 


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CHAPTER SECOND. 

The Republican Abolition Party, 

Of which Abraham Lincoln is the head, is 

A SECTIONAL PARTY. 

Its Non-Affinity with the Union.—Its Aim. 

The Republican Leaders confessed this important but dis¬ 
graceful fact. At the Chicago Convention which nominated 
Mr. Lincoln, in 1860, for the Presidency, the Platform Com¬ 
mittee made a serious blunder, by styling the party 
The National Republican Party ! 

The Convention soon corrected the blunder. The corres¬ 
pondent of the Associated Press said, “ Judge Jessup desired 
to amend a verbal mistake Jin the name of the Party. 
He said, it was printed in the resolution National Republi¬ 
can Party. He wished to strike out the word National 
as that was not the Proper Name of the Party.” The 
correction was made. 

“ The Convention is entitled to great credit for making 
this correction. It shows a candor and an honesty, under 
the circumstances, which one cannot but admire. Judge 
Jessup is a sensible man. He knew that Republicanism had 
no claim to be considered 1 national/ and hence to place it 
fair and square, on the record, as a mere sectional concern, 
he moved the correction, and the correction is made.” 

The correspondent further said : “ When the list of dele¬ 
gates from the represented States was concluded, on a sug¬ 
gestion, the delegates of the absent States were called : 

Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, being received 
with Hisses !” 

“ These 1 hisses’ might grate harshly on the ear of national 
men, but, as we have just shown, there was nothing ‘ nation- 


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aP in or about the Chicago Convention of 1860, and the 
demonstration was all right. The ‘ Union/ as recognized at 
Chicago, does not include Alabama, Mississippi, or South 
Carolina—all of which are outsiders , and deserve only to be 
4 hissed.* ” 

In the old National Convention of the “ Fathers of the 
Republic,” w’hich met in 1774, when the “Articles of Con¬ 
federation and Perpetual Union between the States” were 
adopted, South Carolina, was represented. 

There were no Hisse3 theD, 
when her name was called. 

Thirteen years after, when the “ Fathers of the Republic” 
assembled once more in National Convention, and made the 
present Constitution, South Carolina, was presented. 

Her Name was Not HISSED then. 

When the Constitution was submitted to the States for 
Ratification, SOUTH CAROLINA was j amcmg the FIRST 
to Ratify. 

£^2^ She was Not Hissed then ! 

North Carolina held off one year, and Rhode Island—ah ! 
—Two years. 

Yes, Rhode Island, a Northern State, held off —she would not 
Ratify the Constitution for Two Years. P>ut South 
Carolina —that Terribly Wicked and Rebellious State, as 
the Abolitionists would have us believe,—that Hot-bed of 
Secession, Ratified the Constitution at Once ! 

The reason why Rhode Island —our Northern and Loyal 
State —was tardy in yielding her ap/prcrcal was, because The 
Constitution Abolished the Slave Trade after 1808; a Trade 
out of which the people of that State ho.d made , and were making , 
immense but Guilty Fortunes ! 

After these doings at Chicago , then, let us hear no more 
from the Republican Journals and Republican Orators and 
Political, Gossiping War Preachers about “Reverence for 
the Fathers of the Republic /’ or, of Affection for the l ni»»n. 
It is about time that that sort *f Hypocrisy was done with. 


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“That Reminds Me of a Story.” 

" My dear husband,” said a lady to her lord, who was al¬ 
ways very long and devout at prayers, and as habitually 
profane when any thing crossed him : “ My dear husband, 
I think you should Either Stop Praying or Stop Sioearing ; 
it don't make much odds which .” So of the Lincoln Party. We 
think it should either stop/ Professing Devotion to the “ Fath¬ 
ers,” and the “Union,” or stop saying and doing things 
which argue no respect for the one, nor attachment to 
the other. 

Verily, my friends, the Republican-Abolition Lincoln Party 
is exclusively sectional. An Abolition Party must, necessarily 
be sectional and anti-national. Abolitionism, in whatever 
form, is based upon the dissolution of the Union, the subjvgcu- 
-'tion of the South, the Abolition of Slavery, and the establish¬ 
ment of 

A Centralized Despotic Government. 

Previous to the election of Mr. Lincoln, the very Leaders 
of the Republican Party, without whose aid and influence 
Mr. Lincoln could not have been elected, openly avowed 
their hostility to the Union with Slavery in it, which will be 
clearly proved in the course of this work. 

The Non-Affinity 

Of the Republican-Abolition Leaders 
With the Union ; 

Or, When they love the Union. 

1. When it oonduces to their caprices and ambition. 
When it promises less than this, they have no scruples in 
saying, with Gen. Banks, “ Then let the Union slide !” 

2. When they can trample upon the Rights of American 
Freemen without let or hindrance. When they can not, in 
the language of Mr. Chandler, they say, “The Union is not 
worth a rush without a little blood-letting^” 

3. When they can wage a cruel war against Eight Mil¬ 
lion of their brethren, who dare resist a sectional Abolition 


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Party, that for some years have smuggled away their pro¬ 
perty by the Underground Railway ; established laws, in 
violation of the Constitution, to prevent them from recover¬ 
ing it, and make it a penal offence for any one to assist 
them in its recovery; and persist in their utter extermination 
by the most barbarous appliances of war ever known to sav¬ 
age or civilized nations !—Then their love for the Union is 
inexpressible, and they will go to any extent—sacrifice any 
amount of lives, and destroy any quantity of property to 
save the Union, which, under circumstances adverse to them, 
was not worth a rush, and might slide with impunity. 

Before Lincoln & Co. knew exactly how to abolish Slavery, 
and when it was in their power to Preserve the Union, they 
would not. Why ? Because they believed that “ The 
Union is a League with hell.” And Horace Greeley, through 
the Tribune, said, “The flag is a flaunting lie”—“A pol¬ 
luted rag.” 

Lincoln & Co. have always despised the Union with 
the South, and have ever aimed at its destruction. Now 
they have it in their power to destroy the Union, and they 
a*re using it under the wicked pretense of saving the Union. 

To raise an army to do their fighting—to destroy the 
Union which they knew would be the result of war—and to 
give their diabolical work the appearance of what they term 
loyalty; they deafen us with the cry of 

The Union 1 The Union ! 

4. They Love the Union. 

While we furnish them all the money and men they ask to 
carry on the Abolition War—for it is nothing else :— 

While we permit them to violate the Constitution, and to 
trample upon our Rights—to arrest harmless and distin¬ 
guished statesmen, incarcerate them in dungeons, or banish 
them from their Native Land, and from the protection of 
their Government,—for mere exercise of their Rights :— 

While we permit them to rob our workingmen of their 
hard-earned wages, or, if penniless, to “Drive them like Bui- 


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locks to the Slaughter-house.” Then the Union to the Abo¬ 
lition Demagogues is a sweet thing. 

But let the people demand a cessation of hostilities—Com¬ 
promise—a Restoration of the Union, as it was—Peace, with 
the Rights of the South fully restored to them,—then they 
demur, and tell us that that would dissolve their Party, and, 
in the language of Stevens, of Pa., that 

“ Civil war would not be half so disastrous, as the disruption 
of the Republican Party.” 

THE UNION. 

The Union embraces all the States, North and South ; 
each State in full possession of its Rights. 

How can Lincoln & Co. love the Union, and claim to be the 
Union Party, while they have ever been avowed enemies of South¬ 
ern Institutions and their Constitutional Rights, and willing to 
“ spend the last dollar,” and “ kill the last man” in order to de¬ 
stroy them ? It is impossible—absurd. 

The Union they love is not the Union of our Fathers—of 
Washington, Jefferson, Jackson,—but it is the Abolition Union 
—Union without Slavery in its present wholesome form —Union 
with the South exterminated or subdued—which is emphatically 
disunion , and war inevitable and everlasting. 

An Abolition Union is a great cheat. Daniel Webster, the 
world-wide renowned Statesman, describes the Union as it should 
be, in his eloquent address delivered at the Revere House on the 
occasion of his welcome home by the citizens of Boston, April 
29, 1850. It is forcibly applicable to the present crisis of our 
Country. 

“The United Love of a United Government.” 

Mr. Webster said : “ The Union, for the preservation of which 
I strive ; the Union of States for which I strive—is not merely 
a Union of law—of Constitution—of compact ; but while it is 
that, it is a Union of brotherly regard, of fraternal feeling through¬ 
out the whole country. I do not wish that the people of any 
portion of this country shall feel held together only by the bonds 


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of a legal corporation—bonds which some of them may think re¬ 
tain their limbs, cramp their affections, gall and wound them. I 
wish, on the contrary, that they shall be bound together by those 
unseen, soft, easy-sitting chains that result from generous affec¬ 
tions and from a sense of common interest and common pride. In 
short, fellow-citizens, my desire is, and my labor is to see that 
state of things produced, in which, filling all bosoms with grati¬ 
tude, all hearts with joy, illuminating all faces, spreading through 
all ranks of people, whether rich or poor, whether North or 
South, East or West ; there shall exist the balm of all our suf¬ 
fering—the great solace of all our political calamities—the great 
security of everything prosperous, and great, and glorious in the 
future ;—and that is, the united love of a united government.” 

Now it is evident that Lincoln & Co. did not desire this 
“ Union of brotherly regard , of fraternal feeling , throughout the 
whole country ,”—“ The united love of a united Government.’* 
Because when there was a prospect of settling our difficulties 
without bloodshed, they opposed it. And they became so ex¬ 
cited at one time, from fear that the North and South would be¬ 
come reconciled without the effusion of blood, blasting the pros¬ 
pects of the human butchers, who hoped to enrich themselves by 
the war,—what then said the Hon. Mr. Chandler, the Republi¬ 
can Senator from Pennsylvania ? In the spirit and language of 
a fiend, he said, 

“The Unionis not Worth a Rush 
Without a Little Blood-Letting.” 

These are facts in history. Is it not surprising how these vil¬ 
lains ingratiated themselves into the graces of the American 
People ? ? 

At the last Presidential campaign the Democrats went in for 
the Union, and the Republicans called them 

Unionists, Union Savers, 

as if it was low and absurd to contend for a thing so contemptible 
as the Union. 

But after the Republicans succeeded in driving the South to 
secession and desperation, and to “ fire the first gun,” then they 


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made great pretensions of love for tlie Union. Everywhere they 
deafened us with their cries of, “[The Union, 0 the Union, it 
must not be dissolved. The Rebels must be put down or they 
will destroy the Union.” 

Then came the proclamation for Yolunteers. The demand was 
more than met, very promptly, and with a patriotism unequalled 
by any nation of any age. 

As to their promises and inducements, their uncounted false¬ 
hoods and deceptions, their failures and blunders, their treachery 
and tyranny, I say naught here. 

Proclamations succeeded proclamations, each one increasing iu 
nefariousness, according to its number. They became obnoxious 
to the masses, whose eyes were opened for the first, to the real 
character and designs of the Republican Leaders. 

The Emancipation Act was their culminating point, confirming 
the warnings of the Democrats, that Lincoln & Co. were Aboli¬ 
tionists in disguise. 

Their infamous deeds, their human butchery, their manifest in¬ 
tention to subjugate the South at all hazards, without a chance 
to compromise, and restoration, have turned the tide of popular 
favor against them. 

Now to regain their popularity they have feigned to throw off 
their repulsive name Republican, and have assumed the appella¬ 
tion, 

National Union Party, 

hoping by this craft to deceive the masses again, and through 
them be re-elected to their present position. 

American Freemen, be not deceived by the enemies of your 
independence again. 

When they have changed the color of the Ethiopian, then you 
may believe they have changed and improved their character. Let 
them assume any name they please, whether Union Loyal 
Leagues, or Constitutional Unionists, or Radical Democrats, 
they will still be Abolitionists and Tyrants. 

Fellow Freemen, these Abolitionists must be overthrown, this 
very autumn, else look for 


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The Abolition of Slavery ; 

The Destruction of our Republic ; 

The Enfranchisement of the Negro ; 

Amalgamation Legalized ; 

A Mongrel Race of Mulattoes ; 

An Established Monarchy ! I 
Alas, for America. 

The True Spirits of the Whig Party, 

And the Tory Spirits ! 

“ That Reminds Me of a Story.” 

About 1800 years ago, in the country of the Gergesenes, 
whither the Prince of Peace and his disciples had gone, they 
found two persons “ possessed with devils.” The devils seeing 
that their time had come, and that the persons they possessed 
were about uniting with Jesus, begged the Lord to permit them 
to “go away into the herd of swine.” Their wish was granted. 
The result was, “ the whole herd of swine ran violently down a 
steep place into the sea, and perished.” 

Precisely so did the True Spirits of the Whig Party unite with 
Democracy, while the Tory Spirits—political devils—like the de¬ 
moniacs spoken of in the Scriptures, when they came out of the 
Man Whig, straightway entered into the Abolition Swine, which 
rushed headlong into the Sea—the Red Sea—the Sea of blood 
—and perished. 

The Aim 

Of the Republican-Abolition Leaders, Lincoln & Co. 

Bear in mind, noble Freemen, that I^allude, in my re¬ 
marks, to Lincoln and his co-leaders only. 

Many thousands voted for Lincoln from a conscientious but mis¬ 
guided regard for the poor Negro. Many of them are the pur¬ 
est and noblest of the earth. Not so their Leaders. See the 
shrewd Satanic schemes they adopted to bamboozle the innocent 
and noble. To secure their votes they inscribed upon their ban¬ 
ners, 

“ Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Men,” 
by which they meant 


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. Freedom for Negroes ! 

Free Soil for Abolitionists ! 

After freeing the Negroes they intended to promote them to 
all the rights of American citizens. Else they could not be free. 
Then with the votes of several million Negroes, they expected to 
Overthrow Democracy ; 

Subdue the Freedom of Speech ; 

Control the Press ; 

Enslave the Masses, and 
Institute a Monarch, 

who would control the offices and appointments, and bestow them 
upon his favorite accomplices. 

Having a large standing army to fight for them, and millions 
of Negroes under a delusive freedom to vote for them, they hoped 
to perfect their designs. 

Hence they were deaf to every proposition for Peace. War 
would be more profitable to them and their petty sub-leaders, 
who helped them into power. They were estranged from the 
path of virtue, and turned a deaf ear to suffering humanity— 
through their love of Position and Power. 

Their consciences became “ seared as with a hot iron,” making 
them incapable of remorse or compassion. 

What though our gallant soldiers should fall prey to their 
wanton avarice ? 

What though it should drench our land in blood—fill it with 
widows and orphans, and reduce countless thousands to poverty, 
crime, and shame ? 

What though ,it should destroj our Free Republic, disgrace 
our Flag, and make their barbarity the by-word of Nations ? 

The only questions involved were, 

Will it Pay ? 

Will it give TJs Position and Power ? 



CHAPTER THIRD. 

Secession Considered. 

Lincoln & Co., tho sole originators of Secession, proved in an interest¬ 
ing dialogue between Bobbie Lincoln and Miss Virginia, and from their 
various speeches and writings—Important Republican Abolition ex¬ 
tracts. 

After about eighty years of alliance the South withdrew 
from the North. They declared to the entire world that their 
alliance to the North had terminated. 

Had the South a Right to Secede ? 

They believed they had, and the leaders of the Republican 
party, Lincoln and others, frequently told them they had. 

The following are the Leading Secessionists of America : 

IIis E xcellency Abraham Lincoln ; 

His Excellency Jefferson Davis ; 

The Honorable Horace Greeley ; 

The Honorable H. A. Wise. 

And many others equally Excellent, Honorable and Wise. 

I will now prove to your entire satisfaction, except you are a 
bigot, that 

The Republican Leaders, 

Are the Sole Originators, 

Of Southern Secession. 

Secession would never have been thought of, much less at¬ 
tempted, but for their interference with Southern Institutions. 

Secession had its origin in Great Britain. After it had ac¬ 
complished its purposes there, it commenced its work of desola¬ 
tion in our own dear native land. 

It was about thirty years ago, that Great Britain gave the 
Negroes of the West Indies their Freedom, on the ground that 
they were entitled to o qiiial rights with the White race. 


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But England in this act was not influenced solely from motives 
of benevolence. No, she had an eye to the overthrow of American 
Institutions, which she expected to accomplish through Abo¬ 
litionism. 

Sir Robert Peel disclosed the secret when he said, “The One 
Hundred Million of dollars 'paid for the Abolition of Slavery 
in the West Indies, was the best investment ever made for 

The Overthrow of American Institutions.” 

From that day there has been an eternal crusade against 
the Institutions of the South, under the pretence of freeing the 
Negro. 

The London Anti-Slavery Society, in the name of Great 
Britain, sent George Thompson, a notorious Abolitionist, as a 
Missionary to benighted America, to preach and disseminate his 
incendiary doctrines. 

Their object in sending Thompson here was not to elevate the 
Negro, nor to improve his condition—that was a mere pretext— 

• but to destroy the Union of the States, and thus annihilate the 
rapidly growing power of the United States, which was even 
then excelling her Mother Country in the Commerce of the 
World. 

Thompson had many admirers in New England, whither he 
was sent, who eagerly joined him in his nefarious business of 
breaking up the Union of the North and South, which was 
rapidly making our Nation the first Power on the Globe. 

They flooded the Land with their Tracts, Newspapers and 
Speeches. 

“ At first they were rejected everywhere ; but, addressing 
themselves to the moral sense, they have gained ground con¬ 
tinuously. Little by little they invaded the pulpit, then they got 
into the schools, and sought to bend the young mind of the 
rising generation to their bias, and finally they were able to take 
hold of political parties. The pages of our history mark their 
steady progress. They were tolerated by communities that at 
first rejected them ; then they divided the churches that had 
broken the bread and taken the cup of the Lord’s supper a t the 


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same communion table, and led Christian professors of the same 
church organization to denounce each other ; then they raised 
local parties in the Northern States, and carried many of these 
up to the point of violating the compact of our Union and nulli¬ 
fying the federal laws by State legislation ; they invaded the 
domain of federal politics by claiming the right of introducing in 
Congress petitions for the abolition of slavery ; then came the 
Wilmot Proviso, to exclude it from a single Territory; and now 
we have witnessed the triumph in the Presidential Electoral 
College of a political party whose fundamental idea is that 
‘ slavery is an evil and a crime/ and which proclaims that it 
must be excluded from all the common Territories of our con¬ 
federation.” 

A Dialogue 

between Miss Virginia and Bobbie Lincoln, in which Bobbie 
confirms my position, namely, that 

The Republican Leaders 
Are the Real Secessionists ! ! 

Bobbie’s replies to Miss Virginia, are taken from his Father 
Abraham’s Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, 
Jan. 12th, A. D. 1848 (see Appendix to the Congressional 
Globe , first session Thirteenth Congress, page 94). 

Virginia. Bobbie, have you heard the Rumor ? 

Bobbie. I hear more than I should now-a-days ! What’s up 
now, Virginia ? 

Virginia. It is rumored and credited by many that your Pa 
is a Secessionist. 

Bobbie. That is a Secession no-such-thing, Virginia. If my 
Pa is a Secessionist, why would he send the prominent Secession¬ 
ists to Fort Lafayette ? 

Virginia. That’s just what I told a Secesh gentleman last 
evening, and I referred him to the large army your Pa had sent 
South to put down the Secessionists. 

Bobbie. What did he say to that, Virginia ? 

Virginia. I was astonished at his reply. lie said that his 
policy in sending an army South was to extend Secession—that 


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but few States had contemplated secession until your Pa issued 
his Proclamation for volunteers,—and that if he had treated 
them courteously, they would soon have returned and renewed 
their allegiance to the Government. But your Pa’s object was, 
to drive the Southern States entirely from us ; to get an excuse 
for waging war against them ; to free their slaves ; confiscate 
their property ; overthrow the Government ; establish a mon¬ 
archy, and constitute himself and his Co-Leagues Supreme Rulers 
of the Land. 

Why, Mr. Pity, I said, do you really think so ? 

I know so, he replied,—already they have violated our Con¬ 
stitution—abridged the freedom of speech—imprisoned their 
political opponents—suspended the Habeas Corpus, and none 
can say I am Free. 

But I must go. Here is the Congressional Globe, Virginia, I 
will leave it with you and you can read it at your leisure. You 
will find Mr. Lincoln’s Secesh doctrine on page 94, which will 
satisfy you that he is one of the Authors and Pounders of 
Secession. 

Take the book, Bobbie, and read aloud that Ma may hear, 
and I will tell you how each sentence strikes my mind, as you 
pass along. 

Fob. With the greatest pleasure, Virginia. 

(Bobbie reads aloud his Father’s Patriotism.) 

“ Any People, Any Where.” 

Vir. That embraces the Southern People surely ! 

Bob. “ Being inclined and having the power.” 

Vir. “ The Southern People were inclined and had the power” 

Bob. 11 Have the Right to Rise LTp.” 

Vir. So the South believed and they Rose Up ! 

Bob. “ And to Shake Off 

The Existing Government.” 

Vir. So the South believed and they did “ shake off the exist - 
ing Government.” That is, they shook olf your Pa’s Govern¬ 
ment. They did precisely what he said they had a right to do. 
What else, Bobbie ? 


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Bob. “ And Form a New One 

That Suits them Better.” 

Vir. And the South have done so and nothing more. They 
have formed a “ New Government” that “ suits them better .” 

Therefore as they have followed out the advice of your 
Father, it follows that he is not only a Secessionist, but one 
of the founders and authors of Secession. 

Now, Bobbie, if “ Any 'people any where, being incliir ’ 
having the power, have the right to rise up,” as your > 
said, “ and to shake off the existing Government , and form a 
one that suits them better ,” I desire to know whence origina 
that RiGHT and Power ? Is it of man ? or of God ? Wha 
does your Father say to that, Bobbie ? 

Bob. He says in the next sentence 

“ This is a Most Valuable, 

A Most Sacred Right.” 

Vir. There can be no higher Right than “ Sacred Right,” 
Bobbie. So in “ shaking off ” the Government of your Father, 
the South have simply “ obeyed God rather than man,” accord¬ 
ing to your Pa’s doctrine of secession. 

Now if they had 11 a most Sacred Right to secede and form a 
new Government—what manner of Right had your Father to 
wage war against them for doing what he said they had a Most 
Sacred Right to do ?” 

Bob. It is Father’s duty, as President of the United States, 
to preserve the Government, if necessary, by military force. 

Vir. It does not appear so to me, Bobbie. If God has given 
the South a Most Sacred Right to Rise up and Shake off the 
existing Government, he certainly has not given your Father a 
Sacred Right to murder them for it. 

Now I think that your Father has assumed an awful respon¬ 
sibility. Because where a Sacred —a Most Sacred Right ex¬ 
ists, God intends to effect a great end through his human agents, 
in the use of it. Hence your Father, in waging war against the 
South, is surely fighting against God. 

Hoes your Pa say what is the end of that most sacred right , 
Bobbie ? 



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Bob. He says, 

“ It is a Right which we hope and believe is to Liberate the 
world.” 

Vir. Precious words, Bobbie. I hope they will find a lodg¬ 
ment in every human heart. I have been pondering over them, 
Bobbie, and I am strengthened in my feeling that your Pa is 
committing a most flagrant sin against high heaven, inflicting a 
terrible calamity upon our Country, and indeed upon the whole 
human family, which he can never answer for before the bar of 
God or man. And-- 

Mother. Suppress your feelings, Ginia, perhaps Mr. Lincoln 
would embrace in his remarks only the whole people of the Govern¬ 
ment, and that he would not accord to simple portions of the 
Government any such liberties whatever. If so, his remarks 
would not apply to the Southern Secession, and his war against 
them may be justifiable. 

Vir. I think not, Ma. Does not your Pa explain that in the 
course of his remarks there, Bobbie ? 

Bob. He does, Virginia, in the next sentence, thus :— 

“ Nor is this Right confined to cases in which the Whole 
People of an existing Government may choose to exercise it. 

Any Portion of such People that can, 

May Revolutionize, 

And make their own, 

Of so much Territory as they inhabit .” 

Vir. Now, Ma, does not that fully justify the South ? What 
better defence for their act of Secession could they ask ? No 
Southerner has ever used stronger secesh language than this. 

Suppose, Bobbie, that a minority in the portion of Country 
revolutionizing should oppose them, what does your Pa say 
about that ? 

Bob. Pa says in the next sentence— 

“ A Majority of any Portion of such people 
May Revolutionize, 

Putting down a Minority, 



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intermingling with or near about them , who may 
Oppose their movements.” 

Vir. You must excuse me, Bobbie, for I must be honest with 
you. “ Honest old Ale ” has been the honored title of your Fa¬ 
ther. Now, wherein is his claim to honesty in this sad affair of 
our country ? He has advocated Secession and Revolution, 
and declared it to be a Sacred Right of any people anywhere to 
rise up against the Government that has become offensive to 
them, and to form a Government that suits them better. 

The Southern States entertained the same views, and availed 
themselves of their Sacred Rights. That is, they did precisely 
what your Pa said was their Sacred Right to do. For which he 
has instituted a desolating and barbarous war to compel them 
to yield their Rights. Ah, Bobbie, there is neither honesty 
nor humanity in that. It looks to me like a well-laid scheme 
to deceive the South and to draw them into a pit of self- 
destruction. 

If Revolution was a Sacred Right in 1848, it was a Sacred 
Right in 1861, and will be forever. If the theory was correct 
in 1848, the practical demonstration was correct in 1861. 

If to rise up against your Government when it oppresses you 
is a Sacred Right , a Divine Right , a Right emanating from 
God, then any attempt to suppress that Right is not of God, but 
of the Evil One. 

Your Pa was regarded as the Representative of the Republi¬ 
can Party, consequently the South looked upon him and his 
Party as favorable to their Secession, and—I am forced to be¬ 
lieve—that it was the real intention of the Leaders of the Re¬ 
publican Party, as my friend Mr. Pity said, to break up our 
Republic and to establish a Monarchy. 

Bob. Don’t worry Virginia. Keep in mind the words of Pa 
on his way to Washington : 

“ Nobody hurt 1” 

Vir. And keep in mind, Bobbie, that Nero danced when 
Rome was on fire. 


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CHAPTER FOURTH. 

' Secession Continued. 

The Republican Leaders are the real Secessionists—proved in an inter¬ 
esting dialogue between Elder Query and Horace Greeley.—The bene¬ 
fits of Secession argued by Horace Greeley.—Important Extracts from 
several distinguished Secessionists of the Republican Party. 

I have proven satisfactorily to every candid reader that Mr. 
Lincoln, the Abolition nominee for the next Presidency, was an 
avowed Secessionist. This is confirmed by an extract found in 
his inaugural address. He said : 

“ Happily the human mind is so constituted that no party can 
reach the audacity of denying any right plainly written in the 
Constitution. If by mere force of numbers, a majority should 
deprive a minority of any clear written constitutional right, it 
might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.” 

“ Lincoln has sent hundreds of men into dungeons in his bas- 
tiles for uttering language far less condemnatory of the course 
of his Administration than this. The truth is, that when he 
commenced his official career, he had no idea that the American 
people were such sheep as to submit to the whole course of des¬ 
potism which he has, by rapid degrees, fastened upon them. If 
the people do not despise him, he has certainly the very best of 
reasons for despising them.” 

The next evidence is— 

The Hon. Horace Greeley. 

This gentleman is widely known as one of the Founders of the 
Republican Party, and as having PONE MORE than any other 
man to build up that party. 

His party considers him 

“ The Chief among ten thousand, and the one altogether 
lovely.” 


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Or, in the language of tlie Rev. Dr. Frothingham , of New 
Sfork: 

iyST’ u A Second Saviour op the People .” 

“Whose Blood the New York Mob hungered for.” 

All this his Republican friends believe ; but will they believe 
me if I tell them that Mr. Greeley is 

Q WT * A rank Secessionist ? 

They will certainly believe his own words. Read the follow¬ 
ing Dialogue between Elder Query, Mr. Greeley, and Deputy 
Provost. Mr. Greeley’s replies are word for word as recorded in 
his Tribune of November 9th, a.d. I860. 

Elder Query. In your Tribune of November 9, 1860, you 
taught the doctrine of Secession. You said, “ If the Cotton 
States consider the value of the Union debateable, we maintain 
their perfect right to discuss it.” Was that what you meant, or 
was it a mere flourish of rhetoric ? 

Horace Greeley. “We hold with Jefferson to 
The Inalienable Right of Communities, 

To Alter or Abolish forms of Government, 

That have become Oppressive or Injurious. 

And if the Cotton States shall become satisfied that they 
Can do Belter 

Out of the Union than In it, 

We insist on Letting them G o 
In PEACE.” 

Elder. That is truly a strong Secession idea and full of Revo¬ 
lution. 

Horace. “The Right to Secede may be a Revolutionary 
one, but it exists nevertheless.” 

Elder. Suppose the Southern States had remained in the 
Union and nullified the laws which were adverse to their inter¬ 
ests, as the New England Republicans have done in their re¬ 
spective States ? Would not that have been better for our 
Country ? 

Horace. “ We must ever resist the asserted right of any State 
to remain in the Union, and nullify or defy the laws thereof ; 


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To Withdraw from the Union, 

Is quite another matter” 

Elder. According to your theory, you would not recommend 
coercive measures to bring back any considerable number of 
States that should secede ? 

Horace. “ Whenever a considerable section of our Union shall 
deliberately resolve to go out, we shall 

Resist all Coercive Measures, 
designed to keep them in.” 

Elder. That is sound Secession, and very encouraging to the 
seceded States. You made a fair promise, and you have had a 
fine opportunity to fulfil it. 

I£2ir What coercive measures have you resisted ? 

Deputy Provost. “ Circumstances alter cases,” Elder. It is 
not wisdom always to fulfil promises. 

Elder. It, certainly, is not always profitable. 

As Mr. Lincoln has changed his policy, and is now employ¬ 
ing coercive measures to bring the South back again, suppose 
he succeeds in forcing their submission to his Government 
by Greek fire and the sword, would that satisfy you, Mr. 
Greeley ? 

Horace. “We hope never to live in a Republic, 

Whereof One Section is Pinned 
To the Residue by Bayonets.” 

Elder. If that is your honest sentiment, Mr. Greeley, why do 
you co-operate with Mr. Lincoln in his hostile measures to “pin 
the South to the North by bayonets ?” You preach Secession 
and practice Coercion. With such inconsistency how can you 
expect to hold the confidence of the Conservative Freemen ? 

I am forced to the following conclusions : 

1. That the return of the South to the Union is not your in¬ 
tention. You did your best to encourage them to secede, and 
now you are doing your utmost,—not to bring them back—but 
to subdue them,—not to unite with them, but to speculate upon 
them, and to constitute yourselves their masters. 

2. If the South should be subdued and compelled to submit to 
the North by bayonets, then as you “ hope never to live in such 


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a Republic,” you will no longer be a citizen of the United States, 
for you will either like Judas go out and hang yourself, or put 
otf to the mountains of Canada and like “ the wild Ass seek for 
every gree?i thing P 

That will certain ly be one advantage to our Country. 

Horace. Deputy Provost, did you hear that ? This fellow is 
a Copperhead—a real Secessionist ; I order his arrest and that 
he be sent to Fort Lafayette without delay. 

Deputy Provost. Elde r, you are my prisoner. 

Elder. All right, Deputy ; just have the kindness to read the 
following extracts. “ Misery loves company.” 

From the 'Tribune of November 26, 1860. 

“ If the Cotton States unitedly and earnestly wish to with¬ 
draw peacefully from the Union, we think they should and would 
be allowed to do so. Any attempt to compel them by force to 
remain would be contrary to the principles enunciated in the im¬ 
mortal Declaration of Independence, contrary to the fundamen¬ 
tal ideas on which human liberty is based.” 

From the Tribune of December 17, 1860. 

“ If the Declaration of Independence justified the secession from 
the .British empire of three millions of colonists in 1776, we do 
not see why it would not justify the secession of five millions of 
Southerners from the Union in 1860.” 

From the Tribune of February 23, 1861. 

“We have repeatedly said, and we once more insist, that the 
great principle imbodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Ame¬ 
rican Independence, that governments derive their just power 
from the consent of the governed, is sound and just ; if the Slave 
States, the Cotton States, or the Gulf States only, choose to 
form an independent nation, they have a clear moral right to do 
so. * * * Whenever it shall be clear that the great body 

of the southern people have become conclusively alienated from 
the Union, and anxious to escape from it, we will do our best to 
forward their views.” 


The Poisoned Chalice. 


“ In reviewing the wreck and ruin that now exist in our once 
free and happy country, men wander about in strange bewilder¬ 
ment and vainly seek for the clue of Ariadne to guide them 
through the labyrinth. Let them turn to history, and they will 
find the mystic thread. The Abolition teachers of the past, weak 
and powerless for danger in comparison with the Jacobin orators 
and journals of the present, first began the ‘irrepressible conflict.’ 
The foundation of their system was a total disregard of all laws 
in opposition to their own dark theories. They labored with 
ceaseless energy to produce in the public mind an utter contempt 
for the decisions of the Courts and the acts of Congress which 
interfered with the progress of their anti-slavery doctrines. 

They boldly and infamously taught resistance to the Fugitive 
Slave law and the decision of the Supreme Court of the United 
States in the Dred Scott case. They inaugurated mobs and riots 
to nullify the former, and refused, in any manner, to recognize 
the binding force of the latter. They gloated over the reckless 
attempt to rescue Anthony Burns in Boston, and applauded to 
the echo the wicked raid of John Brown into Virginia. Ever 
since they had a party name to rally around, they have been de¬ 
structive, revolutionary and treasonable.” 

Horace Greeley Again. 

As far back as the llth of March, 1851, Horace Greeley said 
in the New York Tribune : 

“ We loathe and detest all laws which give or withhold politi¬ 
cal rights on account of color. All constitutional exclusion of 
any class from the polls, the jury-box, &c., because of color, are 
aristocratic, unjust and infamous.” 

When the Kansas-Nebraska bill was pending in the Congress 
of the United States, Mr. Greeley thus thundered forth his revo¬ 
lutionary advice to his co-conspirators : 

“ We urge, therefore, unbending determination on the part of 
the northern members hostile to this intolerable outrage, aud de? 


mam] of them, in behalf of peace, in behalf of freedom, in behalf 
of Justice and humanity, resistance to the last. Better that con¬ 
fusion should ensue—better that discord should reign in the na¬ 
tional councils—better that Congress should break up in wild 
discord—nay, better that the Capitol itself should blaze by the 
torch of the incendiary, or fall and bury its inmates beneath its 
crumbling ruins, than that this perfidy and wrong shall be finally 
accomplished.” 

John P. IJale, 

The Abolition Senator from New Hampshire, was not behind 
the editor of the Tribune in his bloody sentiments. On the 26th 
of February, 1856, he thus addressed the Senate : 

“ I thank God that the indications of the present day seem to 
promise that the North have at last got to the wall, and will go 
no further. I hope so. The Senator soys there may be a power 
that shall say, ‘Thus far shalt thou go, and no further. 7 * Good ! 
Good ! Sir, I hope it will come ; and if it comes to blood, let 
blood come. No, sir, if that issue must come, let it come, audit 
cannot come too soon. Sir, Puritan blood has not always shrank 
from even those encounters ; and when the war has been pro¬ 
claimed with the knife, and the knife to the hilt, the steel has 
sometimes glistened in their hands ; and when the battle was 
over, they were not always second best. 77 

Carl Sciiurz, 

In the same humor do we find the notorious Carl Schurz, a 
delegate from Wisconsin to the Chicago Convention that nomina¬ 
ted Mr. Lincoln for the Presidency, and now one of the most ac¬ 
tive Abolition leaders and Generals. lie addressed the citizens 
of St. Louis in the following language : 

“May the God in human nature be aroused and pierce the 
very soul of our nation with an energy that shall sweep, as with 
the besom of destruction, this abomination of slavery from the 
land. You call this revolution. It is. In this we need revolu¬ 
tion ; we must—we will have it. Let it come I 77 


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Joshua R. Giddings. 

Equally inflammatory has been Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio, 
an appointee of the present Administration. On the 16th of 
March, 1854, he thus spoke in the House of Representatives : 

“ When the contest shall come, when the thunder shall roll, 
and the lightning flash, when the Slaves shall rise in the South, 
when, in imitation of the Cuban bondmen, the Southern slaves 
shall feel that they are men, when they feel the stirring emotions 
of immortality, and recognize the stirring truth that they are 
men, and entitled to the rights which God has bestowed upon 
them ; when the slaves shall feel that, and when masters shall 
turn pale and tremble when their dwellings shall smoke, and dis¬ 
may sit on every countenance, then, Sir, I do not say * we will 
laugh at your calamity, and mock when your fear cometh/ but 
I do say, when that time shall come, the lovers of our race will 
stand forth and exert the legitimate powers of this Government 
for freedom. We shall then have constitutional power to act 
for the good of our country, and do justice to the slave. Then 
will we strike off* the shackles from the limbs of the slave. And 
let me tell you, Mr. Speaker, that that time hastens. It is roll¬ 
ing forward. I hail it as I do the approaching dawn of that po¬ 
litical millennium which I am well assured will come upon the 
world.” 

On the 16th of May, 1854, Mr. Giddings delivered another 
speech in the House, in which he gave this advice to his Black 
Republican friends, who went to the Territories : 

“ Tell the slave who comes there his rights ; teach him his ob¬ 
ligations to himself ; put arms in his hands ; instruct him in their 
use, and the best mode of protecting himself. Were I a resident 
of a Territory, and slaves were held in bondage around me, I 
would supply them with arms, and teach them to use all the 
means which God and nature has placed within their control to 
maintain their freedom and their manhood.” 

In 1858 a band of Abolitionists, with force and arms, rescued 
some fugitives slaves from the custody of the Marshal and his 
escort, for which they were imprisoned. Giddings approved the 
act of the Abolitionists, but thought they ought to have killed 


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the Qfficers of the law ! We quote from his speech at Oberlin, 
Ohio : 

“ In disregarding the law, the prisoners did right. Their 
error consisted in sparing the lives of the slave-catchers. 
Those pirates should have been delivered over to the colored 
men, and consigned to the doom of pirates. You are aware 
that this is the doctrine which I proclaimed in Congress. I 
adhere to it. Had the prisoners executed the slave-catchers 
promptly, it would have taught the Administration a lesson 
not soon to be forgotten. We should have been no more 
troubled with that class of miscreants. They would have 
learned better than to show themselves among an intelli¬ 
gent people, who know their rights and dare maintain 
them.” 

But Mr. Lincoln 

himself set the bad example of disobedience to the Courts. 
In his Chicago speech, July 10, 1858, he said : 

“ If I were in Congress, and a vote should come up on a 
question whether slavery should be prohibited in a new 
Territory, in spite of the Dred Scott decision, I would vote 
that it should.” 

Charles Sumner. 

We next find the high priest of Abolitionism in Massachu¬ 
setts, thus advising resistance to the fugitive slave law in a 
speech in Boston, in 1850 : 

“ The good citizen, as he reads the requirements of the 
act, (relative to fugitive slave,) is filled with horror. Here 
the path of duty is clear. I am bound to disobey this act. 
Sir, I will not dishonor this home of the Pilgrims and of the 
Revolution by admitting—nay, I cannot believe—that this 
bill will be executed here.” 

Wm. H. Seward, 

in his speech in the Senate, March 11, 1850, said : 

“There are constitutions and statues, codes mercantile 
and codes civil ; but when we are legislating for States, es- 


peciall.y when we are founding States, all these laws must 
be brought to the standard of the laws of God, and must be 
tried by that standard, and must stand or fall by it. The 
Constitution regulates our stewardship; the Constitution 
devotes the domain to Union, to justice, to defence, to wel¬ 
fare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the 
Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, 
and devotes it to the same noble purpose.” 

Again, in a speech in the Senate, March 28, 1858, Mr. 
Seward said: 

“The interests of the white race demand the ultimate 
emancipation of all men. Whether that consummation shall 
be allowed to take effect, with needful and wise precautions 
against sudden change and disaster, or be hurried on by 
violence, is all that remains for you to decide.” 

Still later, at Boston, he boldly proclaimed: 

“ What a commentary upon the history of man is the fact 
that eighteen years after the death of John Quincy Adams, 
the people have for their standard bearer Abraham Lincoln, 
confessing the obligations of the higher law which the sage 
of Quincy proclaimed, and contending for weal or woe, for 
life or death, in the irrepressible conflict between Freedom 
and Slavery. I desire only to say that we are in the last 
stage of the conflict before the great triumphal inauguration 
of this policy into the,Government of the United States.” 

James S. Pike, 

long editorially connected with the New York Tribune , and 
now Minister to the Netherlands under Mr. Lincoln, says: 

“ I have no doubt that the free and slave States ought to 
separate. The Union is not worth supporting in connection 
with the South' ,, 

Wendell Phillips, 

shortly after the organization of the Republican party 
Speaking of that party : 

“ No man has a right to be surprised at this state of 


things. It is just what we (Abolitionists and Disunionists) 
have attempted to bring about. It is the first sectional party 
ever organized in this country. It does not know its own face, 
and calls itself national •; but it is not national —it is section¬ 
al. The Republican party is a party of the North, pledged 
against the South” 

These are but a few of the many disgraceful specimens 
that might be presented, of the dangerous and revolutionary 
teachings of Abolitionism. The history of the past clearly 
shows that the tone and temper of the Abolition leaders and 
journals of the present day have not, in any degree, moder¬ 
ated in tlieir violence. When mobs and lawless assemblages 
assail the freedom of the Press, no words of condemnation 
are uttered by them. Could it be expected that all this dis¬ 
obedience to law, this shameless invitation to resistance and 
violence, this rank treason to the Constitution, would not pro¬ 
duce the evil fruit which a suffering people are now gather¬ 
ing ? Contempt for law was the grand idea which cropped 
out from all these great criminals. 

From the highest to the lowest—from the grandest to the 
meanest—they have all violated the sanctity of law and 
order, to accomplish the infamous designs which grew in 
their hearts, and choked up every true and patriotic impulse. 
What they sowed, they have reaped. It is the great law of 
nature and humanity. The poisoned chalice has been fear¬ 
fully commended to their own lips. They may mourn over 
the sad necessity that compels them to drain the bitter cup, 
but an indignant people will not permit them to escape the 
punishment due their crimes, by charging other and innocent 
hands with having mixed the fatal ingredients. 

Like. Frankenstein, they had created a demon which will 
pursue them to inevitable destruction. They may call upon 
the hills and mountains to cover them, but they can not fly 
from the just retribution which awaits them at the ballot-box. 
Until that hour comes—an hour full of hope to the American 
people—let the Democracy be true to their old and honored 
principles, of obedience to law and reverence for the Union 



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and the Constitution. Present gloom will give place to future 
brightness, if we are only true to ourselves, to our country, 
to our common destiny. In the great crisis through which 
we are now passing, every Democrat has an important part 
to play. 

There are quiet duties owed and to be paid by each, whose 
aggregation form the life-blood of our parent State. Their 
simple and unobtrusive record may never reach the “gairish 
light of this common day.” They may be forever lost in 
“ the thousand meshes which old custom weaves to bind us 
earthward.” But their potency and influence are none the 
less marked and decided. The power which a single brave 
heart, breathing in comparative obscurity, may exert in a 
great struggle involving the life a*nd liberty of an oppressed 
people, is not measured by the limited sphere that confines 
the deed, but receives its real glory from the truth and he¬ 
roic devotion which quickens the beating pulse of the de¬ 
voted actor. 

THE BENEFITS OF SECESSION. 

BY HORACE GREELEY 

(See Tribune , Nov. 10 th, 1860.) 

As to the Southern trade, he said : 

“ They may buy more sparingly than they have done—we 
deem it the 'permanent interest alike of producer and consumer .” 

That is to say, the North and South will be permanently 
lenefitted by the act of Secession. Again he says: 

“ But it is urged that the South will be impelled to pro¬ 
duce for herself much that she now buy of us. We trust 
this anticipation will be realized. The South is now entirely 
too dependent on importation for most necessaries and 
nearly every luxury. Nearly every thing eaten in her din¬ 
ing-rooms and quite every thing worn in her parlors are 
exotics, mainly bought at the North, with the clothing eve© 
of her negroes. This is too bad for her, and not good even 
for us. We have not two diverse systems of political econo- 


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m 3 7 , one for Lome use, the other for our neighbors ; we do 
most unfeignedly believe in Home Production, or the plant¬ 
ing of the consumer by the side of the producer. The 
Southern people ought to make most of the clothes, hats, 
boots, &c., worn by her people. They would be better clad, 
more comfortable, more effective, more civilized, more weal¬ 
thy, than they now are.” 

Now, the Hon. Mr. Yallandigham never uttered a senti¬ 
ment so Averse to Northern Interests. 

The fact is, Horace Greeley, Lincoln & Co., are not friends 
of the Workingma.n. 

The object of Mr. Greeley, in this remark, was two-fold ; 
to encourage the South to secede; and to Overthrow there¬ 
by the Institution of Slavery !—for in the next sentence he 
said :— 

“ The Peaceful and Gradual 
Overthrow of Serfdom—Slavery— 
has always resulted from the growth and influence of manu¬ 
factures.” 

Mr. Greeley might as well have said, Go South—Secede from 
the Union. Do your own manufacturing—give no more employ¬ 
ment to the mechanics of the North—starve them out and com¬ 
pel them to leave their homes and seek employment in your own 
climes—do anything possible to Free the Negro , let the conse¬ 
quences to the masses of the North be what they may. 

Furthermore he said : 

“ Why should the South send her cotton to either old or New- 
England to be there spun and woven into clothing for her own 
people ? It is barbarous, thriftless policy, and ought not to be 
persisted in. And whenever the South shall have once tasted 
the sweets and realized the profits of a diversified and skilled 
industry, she will be weaned.frorn her devotion to the ineffective, 
wasteful labor of stupid, rude-handed slaves.” 

As to Mr. Greeley’s sincerity in this matter, I have no faith 
whatever. His aim was to wheedle the South into a disposition 
to secede. That was a long studied plot of the Republican 
Leaders. 


American Freemen, be not deceived ; the entire country North 
and South has been brought to the verge of interminable ruin by 
the Republican Leaders. Indeed the whole civilized world is 
to-day reeling to and fro,.under their despotic reign. 

Yet they have the boldness to solicit your votes to re-elect 
their Chief, to reign terror over us, another four years of savage- 
war, havoc, and human blood ! ! 

O, for the sake of your own Independence, work and vote for 
McClellan. 

ANOTHER ARCII-SECESSIONIST. 

A Divine Republican ! 

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. 

In A. P. 1858, Mr. Beecher addressed an applauding crowd 
of Republican Abolition Traitors in the following treasonable 
language, in which he made grave charges against the Constitu¬ 
tion. 

He said : 

The Constitution Is the Cause, 

Of Every Division, 

Which this Vexed Question of Slavery 
Has Ever Occasioned in this Country ! 

It My* The Constitution—Has Been 
The Fountain and the Father 
Of All Our Troubles ! 

by attempting to hold together , as reconciled, two opposing princi¬ 
ples, which will not harmonize nor agree. 

Again he said : 

“ The Only Hope of the Slave, is 
Over the Ruins of the Government, 

And of the American Church 1 
The Dissolution of the Union 
Is the Abolition of Slavery. 

What is that but Secession, Treason, the fruits of Abolition¬ 
ism ? 

He denounces the Constitution as the Cause of All our 
troubles, and declares that “ The Dissolution of our Union and 


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the Ruin of our Government are Necessary to the Abo¬ 
lition of Slavery. 

Does it not then follow that Rev. H. Beecher desires the Dis¬ 
solution of our Union and tlie Ruin of our Government 1 He 
desires the Abolition of Slavery, but this he argues cannot be 
done without the dissolution of the Union and the Ruin of our 
Government. If he desires one, he also does the other. 

Remember, Reader, this is the language of a Republican 
Leader, whose name and character you are all familiar with. 
Your attention is called to these Incendiary Secession Doctrines 
uttered by Republicans, because they will adopt their usual 
political intrigues to misrepresent the* sentiments of the Demo¬ 
crats and to stigmatise them as Traitors., and originators of our 
troubles. But you can see who are the enemies of our country 
and the cause of all our troubles. They are the pretended 
friends of the Negro ! 

I believe that but few will sympathise with this wild Fanatic. 
Yet he is veritably the mouth organ of Mr. Lincoln. And as 
he and his Co-Abolition Leaders are at enmity with the Consti¬ 
tution and Government of our Forefathers, may we not hope 
that the voice of American Freemen will burst forth from out 
of the Ballot boxes next November, like the mighty thunders of 
Mount Sinai, 

“ Let them be Anathema Maranatha.” 

Another Republican Secessionist, 

Judge Spaulding. 

Mr. Spaulding is a distinguished Leader in the Republican 
Party. He addressed the Convention that Nominated Gen. 
Fremont for the Presidency. He declared \ns preference for 
The Dissolution of the Union 
To Free the Negro. 

He said, “ In case of the alternative being presented, of 
The Continuance of Slavery 
Or a Dissolution of the Union, 
j m- I AM FOR DISSOLUTION, 
j£3T And I Care Not How Quick it Comes. 


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Remember, that treasonable language was uttered, not at a 
professed Abolition Convention, but The Republican Con¬ 
vention that nominated Mr. Fremont for the Presidency in 
1856, by one of the leaders of the Republican Party. 

Did you ever hear such treasonable language—such Secession 
Doctrine, in any Democrat meeting or Convention ?—or privately 
by a Democrat of character and influence ? No, Never—such 
treason would not be permitted for a moment in the Democrat 
Party. J 

Who can say that the Republican Leaders are true to our 
Country ? How can we trust our Independence—our Sacred 
Rights, and all our National interests with a combination of men 
who “ prefer the destruction of our Government to its perpetu¬ 
ation with slavery ?” 

THE MONSTER BELLOWS 

By which the Republicans kindled the fires of Secession, 

Rev. Dr. Bellows. 

This distinguished Human-Divine is world-wide known as a 
Republican Leader. He delivered a sermon in A.D. 1856, which 
was published by the Republican Party, for their Campaign 
Document. 

He encouraged 

The Dissolution of the Union 
for the benefit of the Republican Party and the Colored race. 
He said, “ The Dissolution of the Union, however deplorable, is 
not primarily a question of Conscience, but of policy Which 
being interpreted, reads, 

Destroy the Union and Damn your Conscience, 

But Free the Negro ! 

This is a Terrible Bellows ; blowing sometimes a perfect 
tornado, uprooting the sturdy tree of Liberty, and crushing every 
thing in its fall. 

He claims the right 

To Destroy the Union ; to Free the Negro ! 

He said, 


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“ V ? E~m Made the Union, 

And J8@-We~« HAVE THE RIGHT 
To UNMAKE It 
I f JG^We* 1 ^® Choose.” 

From their own speeches, sermons, and writings, it is evident 
that the Republican Leaders desired the dissolution of our 
Union. To this end they advocated the doctrine of Secession— 
all along previous to the election of Mr. Lincoln ;—all the while 
preparing the Southern people to Secede, in order for an excuse 
to create Civil War, by which-they suppased they could over¬ 
throw their Government, Abolish the Sonthern Institutions, give 
freedom to their Slaves, and get the control of the Nation in 
their own hands. 

Read over again the preceding pages, carefully and prayer¬ 
fully, and unless Satan is in you, you will plainly see that he is 
in them. 

There can be no excuse for any one of them. They have all 
gone astray —not like sheep, but like demons. They are a cage 
of unclean birds. The Gentle Dove of Peace cannot dwell with 
them. The Holy Spirit of Righteousness and Justice and 
Mercy hath never crossed the threshold of their hearts. They 
are all Commanded by the Devil,—whose agents they are. In 
his interests they love to lavish their energies. And to every 
Minister who sanctions the Terrible, Bloody Deeds of that Party, 
Christ our Saviour would say, “Ye are of your Father’the 
Devil, and his works ye will do ” 


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CHAPTER FIFTH. 

Democrats not Secessionists. 

They were not, are not, and never will be. 

When Lincoln and Co., by their cunning propagation of 
Secessionism, and their crafty aggressions upon Southern Institu¬ 
tions, had impelled the Southern States to secede—to hide their 
guilt and shame, and to make themselves popular with the peo¬ 
ple, uttered loud cries against Secession and Secessionists, and 
to break down the unswerving Democrats, who were formidable 
enemies to their vile machinations, they wantonly assailed and 
stigmatized them with the epithet Secessionists. 

So it turned out, that the Democrats, who had all along op¬ 
posed the Wide-awake Republican Party, because of its Secession 
dogmas and war tendencies, and for -which they were sneeringly 
called “ Union Savers,” &c. ; are now styled Secessionists by 
the very originators of Secession. That was done to make the 
Democrats unpopular. And it is remarkable how well it 
took. 

The Democrats spared no pains before the election to convince 
the people that the doctrines of the Republican leaders would 
result in the overthrow of our Republic. But their admonitions, 
being regarded as mere political clap-traps, were unheeded. 

When the Republicans discovered the determination of the 
Southern States to secede, instead of extending the olive branch 
of Peace, they immediately commenced arrangements for co¬ 
ercion. 

Unswerving Jeffersonian Democrats could not be tempted by 
Abolition allurements to “ Go with the multitude to do Evil.” 
They sincerely believed that coercion was Unconstitutional ; that 
it would result disastrously to our Country ; that the South 
could not be whipped in a few days, and perhaps never, or 


51 


if ever, not till our entire Country, North as well as South, 
would lay In Ruins, and the Inhabitants merely subdued, but 
never fully restored, to the Spirit of the Union ; that an Im¬ 
mense standing Army would be required to keep them in sub¬ 
jection, which would necessarily augment the debt of our 
Country, and lay upon us and our Children a burden intolerable 
to be borne—that Revolution would follow Revolution until we 
should finally be reduced to mere Petty Provinces, 

“ Each for Himself and the Devil for Us All.” 

These were the prophecies of the Democrats before the Elec¬ 
tion of Mr. Lincoln, and every step taken by him has only 
confirmed them. We opposed Mr. Lincoln for various reasons, 
but especially because he was a Sectional man, nominated by a 
Sectional Party, and pledged to sustain that Party to the in¬ 
jury, if not the destruction, of the Institutions of the South, 
and that his election to the Presidency would create universal 
dissatisfaction in the Southern States ; 

Which would end in Secession : 

Which would end in Coercion : 

Which would end in War : 

Which would end in Separation : 

Inevitable and Eternal. 

For these especial reasons we zealously opposed Mr. Lincoln, 
from his Nomination to his Inauguration, and all the way to 
the present, and will so continue to do until our Country is Re¬ 
deemed from all the Curses he has inflicted upon her. 

Our opposition to Mr. Lincoln was based upon the Preserva¬ 
tion of the Union, and we adopted the immemorable Maxim 
of the 

Immortal Jackson. 

“ The Union Must and Shall be Preserved.” 

We contended for the Union of 1187, and to-day we “ rejoice 
with exceeding great joy,” for the indomitable energy by which 
we withstood our enemies, who sought our destruction, and by 
which we stood up to our sense of duty, although at great 
sacrifice. 


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“ Neither threats nor bribes could lower the standard which 
an honest impulse planted, nor could any mere political advant¬ 
age or disadvantage drive us from its shadow. We declare, 
with a full consciousness of its meaning, that we would sooner 
wrench a limb from its socket, than support a war which we 
know to be not only corrupt, but inhuman and ruinous to everv 
national interest.” 

Save the Union 
At the Point of the Bayonet 1 

This was the motto of the Republican Leaders after they had 
done all in their power to destroy the Union. 

The Noble Democrat, for reasons referred to, plead for Com¬ 
promise ; for a settlement of our difficulties in a manner more 
consistent with humanity and patriotism, and more conducive to 
our welfare. 

But this was a dangerous doctrine to the Republicans. It was 
likely to prove abortive to their plans. It did not furnish them 
with such favorable chances for speculation. It was a danger¬ 
ous doctrine to their craft, and had to be put down. But how 
was this to be done ? Ah ! here is the plan ! Call these Dem¬ 
ocrats—these anti-war men, 

jg® 01 Secessionists, Traitors, Copperheads, &c., 
that will stop their clamoring for Compromise, Concessions, 
Peace, &c. Stigmatize them ! Make them appear odious in' 
the eyes of Preemen 1 Disgrace them I Mob them ! Spot 

them ! Terrify them ! Imprison them ! Then we can have 

our own way. Then we can make war without Let or Hin¬ 
drance ; and if these brawlers for Peace become too bold, they 

can be arrested and confined in Dungeons until we get our army. 
Then we can Defy the world. 

Secession, War, Speculation, 

Wealth and Position, 

were all set down in their programme, and Democrats had to be 
shut up to save their schemes from being foiled and entirely 
broken up. 

This explains the secret why 


“ The Union Savers” of I860 
Were styled Traitors in 1861. 

The Republican Leaders succeeded, notwithstanding their 
established character for falsifying, in making the People gene¬ 
rally believe that the Peace Men were Traitors ; and readily 
consented to their Imprisonment. 

j&gr Democracy still survives. 

Yea, Democracy knows no faltering ; the true Democrat can 
no more change his principles than the Ethiopian his color. 
The principles of Democracy originated in Heaven, and no power 
can destroy them. When fairly impressed upon the honest 
heart they can never be erased. 

Let Abolition Tyrants Beware. 

" They could not swerve us by their taunts in 1860, neither 
can their threats in 1864 intimidate us. True men can not be 
driven from the high and sacred path of duty. 

Our fathers were all called traitors, rebels, seditious, during 
our Revolutionary troubles. When the Netherlanders were 
contending for their liberty, they were treated in the same way, 
and the patriotic leaders, such as Prince William of Orange, the 
Father of this Country, Prince Maurice, St. Aldegonde and 
others, were called Traitors, Infidels, Atheists, Papists, Heretics, 
by their own countrymen, simply because they would not go to 
extremes, but would insist on standing by the Constitution and 
laws of the land, and would not joiu in persecuting Catholics or 
Protestants who differed from themselves. 

William of Orange was even charged with poisoning a rival, 
though he did not appear to have been poisoned, and was also 
called the Prince of Darkness. Hate is injurious in inventing 
harsh names. The people of Scotland were branded with all 
sorts of bad names for standing on the Constitution in opposi¬ 
tion to the usurpation of the Stuarts, and their church meetings 
were called “ rendezvous of rebellion,” and themselves charged 
with the most beastly crimes. And hatred, in the nobility of 
Austria and Switzerland, called the Swiss Confederation a mob 
of villains.” 


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The Whole Argument in a Nut Shell. 

The following, from a letter of the Hon. Charles R. Buckalew, 
well epitomises the arguments of the Abolitionists :— 

“Join us (this is the cry), be with us, think as we think, do 
as we do, forget that you foretold these horrible evils as results 
of our policy and we scouted the warning ; forget that we had 
platforms which we have falsified, and made promises which we 
have broken ; forget that you were freemen before we mounted 
your backs, and ruled you by decrees, and put you in prison by 
telegraph, and sent you tax-gatherers to take your earnings, and 
Provost Marshals to seize your sons for the war 1 Forget all 
this, and do our bidding, and hold up your hands, and bid us 
God-speed, or—you are Secessionists—Traitors—Copperheads—• 
worse than the enemy in arms—and saved of grace, not by merit, 
from most condign and pitiless punishment.” 


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CHAPTER SIXTH. 

An Explosion of a Gas Pipe ! 

** NOBODY HURT : 17 

Or, Why the South Seceded! 

What Demagogues formerly did with Soft-Soap —using the homely 
phrase for convenience —they now do with Gas. 

Their power then was comparatively inert, now very 
dangerous. Then they only besmeared and befooled us ; 
now they inflate us with their villainous gas, and would in¬ 
capacitate us for the enjoyment of a single inhalation of free 
atmosphere. 

In their zeal to inflate us, they frequently overdo the mat¬ 
ter, and the result is, an Explosion. 

At the commencement of the war they inflated the whole 
country with their destructive gas. I say destructive gas, 
because it is not the gas that dispels the darkness of the 
night, nor Colton’s side-splitting gas; but it is Abolition 
Gas ! 

The Gas of Blood ! ! 

If once you fairly inhale it, alas, alas. Piety, Christianity, 
Humanity, every thing noble, falls into a fearful discount, 
and nothing can satiate the hunger, or quench the thirst of 
your abnormal longings but 

BLOOD 1 BLOOD ! BLOOD ! 

To gas the honest Freemen into the belief that the South 
had seceded, simply because a gentleman from tho West had 
been elected to the Presidency of the United States, by the 
name of Abraham Lincoln, was a base deception. 

The entire community, being ignorant of the Abolition gas 
of Hood, impulsively rushed to inhale the murderous stuff. 


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Now, wherever you cast your eyes, you behold the lament¬ 
able results. Throughout the entire country, everybody— 
Saints and Sinners—became intoxicated with the Abolition 
gas, and ran frantic for the blood of their fellow-country 
men. 

The whole affair w r as a murderous infatuation. Of the 
vast majority who went in for the War, at first, we may 
truly say, as Christ our Saviour did of the multitude that 
aided in his Crucifixion, “ Father, forgive them, they knew 
not what they did.” 

And to-day it is like a dream. It seems incredible to 
themselves that they should have been so mysteriously im¬ 
pelled to join the unholy , Abolition crusade against Southern 
Eights. And I hear them say, Strange indeed were the hal¬ 
lucinations that took hold of my mind, and made me encour¬ 
age and become accessory to a deed, yea, to a most lament¬ 
able series of deeds, so unjust, inhuman and barbarous. 
Ah, my friends, charity excuses your infatuation. We would 
not blame you ; for you were not yourselves. You inhaled 
the gas of Hood. Your minds were estranged from Truth and 
Justice, “Peace and Goodwill to man.” You supposed 
yourselves led by an angel. And so you were ; but, alas I 
it was the angel of darkness and delusion, of devastation 
and death. 

But the horrors of fiends are sometimes modified by their 
maddened excesses. So it was from the over-zeal of the 
offending party. Over anxious to gratify their unlaudable 
ambition, and to accomplish their unholy designs, they man¬ 
ufactured a still more powerful gas from newly discovered 
materials called, in Abolition science, Confiscation, Subjuga¬ 
tion, Conscription, Military Necessity, Martial Law, &c. 

This was a grand experiment, resulting in the explosion 
of the Main Pipe, and—“ Nobody Hifrt /” 

Let us look at this matter a moment, and see if there is 
the shadow of a truth in the Republican declaration, that the 
South Seceded because they lost their power in the Govern¬ 
ment, or failed to elect the man of their choice to the Presi- 


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deucy, or simply because the Republicans elected their man, 
Abraham Lincoln ! 

8^ The Assertion is False and Unreasonable. 

It is not reasonable that about Eight Millions of Ameri¬ 
can citizens of the Southern States—descendents of the 
Founders of our Glorious Republic—embracing all Political 
Parties, (except the Abolition party, which, of course, could 
have no existence South,) educated mostly at Northern 
schools—comprising Christian Ministers and Christian Com¬ 
municants of every order, as exist in our Northern States, 
having the same Bible for their Rule of Faith and Practice 
—with Christian Institutions established throughout their 
country; as Sabbath-schools, Bible and Tract Societies, in 
essential matters precisely like our own ; all conducted by 
Ministers or Clergy of every name, precise!}' as we have 
here North—some Good, and many Good j^° for Nothing ! 
It is not, I say, reasonable that a considerable portion of our 
Citizens, in every respect like ourselves, in Education, and 
Religion, and Politics, (except Abolitionism) that they should 
Secede from the Northern States, rise up in arms against 
their Government, and subject themselves to all the disad¬ 
vantages of a most Terrible and Disastrous War ; sacrificing 
their lives and all they held dear; merely because 

they lost their power in the Government, or because Abra¬ 
ham Lincoln was elected President. I say it is not a rea¬ 
sonable supposition at all, and the assertion is absolutely 
false. 

But it is reasonable to suspect that, in the election of Mr. 
Lincoln, our present Chief Magistrate, something more was at 
stake than Office or Power. We have reason for believing 
that the election of Mr. Lincoln involved matters of Vast Im¬ 
portance to the National Interests of the South—yea, eveu 
their National Existence. 

“ The election of Abraham Lincoln was of itself a second¬ 
ary consideration among the people of the South. The great 
cause of their apprehension was the powerful and increasing 
sectional and aggressive anti-slavery movement at his back. 

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Let us look at it a moment. Some thirty years ago the first 
abolition newspaper, the Journal of Commerce, was set lip in 
this city. Shortly thereafter Wm. Lloyd Garrison, who had 
started a co-operative aholition movement in Boston, was 
dragged from a little anti-slavery meeting by a mob, in¬ 
censed at this sort of political agitation, and only escaped 
lynching by being hurried off, under the protection of the 
officers of the law, to the refuge of the city jail. This was 
some thirty years ago, when the people of Virginia were se¬ 
riously debating among themselves the question of gradual 
emancipation. 

But what has followed ? How stands this matter now ? 
A President of the United States w r as elected by the anti¬ 
slavery party of the North, a party pledged not only to put 
a stop to the extension of slavery, but boasting that “ the 
election of Lincoln will be the downfall of slavery.” The 
candidate of this party was not only elected President by a 
Northern vote, comprehending, perhaps, every Northern 
State, but by such overwhelming popular majorities as to 
give to this election the form of an irresistible Northern cru¬ 
sade against the peculiar and vital institutions of the South. 
Our brethren of the South, took these election results in con¬ 
nection with the declared objects and purposes of the Re¬ 
publican party, and the violent abolition campaign speeches 
of W. H. Seward, Senators Wilson, Sumner, and the Repub¬ 
lican orators generally, and with the shadow of John Brown 
in the foreground, discovered that Southern society, life 
and property were in danger; and hence their disunion 
excitement. 

Southern men say to each other : We are no longer secure 
within the Union—is it not better, at all hazards, to leave it ? 
Look at Lincoln’s tremendous anti-slavery majorities. Mark how 
the anti-slavery North has grown over us and overshadowed us 
since the admission of California. Before that act of admission 
we stood fifteen Southern to fifteen Northern States. Now there 
are eighteen Northern States against our fifteen, and with every 
prospect, should the South quietly submit to take things as they 


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mny come, of the addition of half a dozen new free States to the 
Union, before the end of Lincoln’s administration. These new 
States, organized under republican auspices, will be of the anti¬ 
slavery type of Kansas. The census of 1860 will next reduce 
the representation of the South in Congress and increase the re¬ 
presentation of the North ; for during the last ten years the 
mighty popular accessions to the North from European immigra¬ 
tions have built up powerful States where only Indians, trappers 
and wild beasts had flourished before. 

Nor is this all. The Republican party have, in the most sol¬ 
emn forms, admonished us of the South that there shall be no 
more slave Territories and no more slave States ; that the Su¬ 
preme Court shall be reorganized on the side of freedom ; that 
the freedom of speech shall be established in the South as it ex¬ 
ists in the North, and that slavery shall be circled by fire, till, 
like a scorpion, it shall sting itself to death. Thus we see in the 
future a free course to abolition emissaries among our Southern 
plantations, and to the Helpers and John Browns, who are now 
excluded by the defensive arrangements, pains and penalties of 
the Southern States. If the South, and especially the cotton 
States—where our slaves form so large a proportion of our pop¬ 
ulation as to be only safe uuder our own absolute supervision— 
if the cotton States consent, under this state of things, longer to 
submit to the Union, they will invite the day of destruction.” 

From Hon. Mr. Boyce, a Southern Senator. 

“ In my opinion the South cannot submit to the election of 
Lincoln, because he is the nominee of a sectional party —a par¬ 
ty confined altogether to the Northern section of this confeder¬ 
acy. It was not into such a Union that our ancestors entered— 
it was not a Union of one section dominant over another, that 
Washington, Madison, Rutledge and other great men entered ; 
and if there is no other objection this alone would be sufficient. 
Why stay in a Union where we are to be subjected to another 
section ? This is not the only objection to this party. Besides 
being sectional, it is a party filled with animosity to the South 
and her institutions—it is a party which hates us and would de- 


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light in our ruin—a party which would rejoice to see the torch 
applied to our dwellings. To such a party why should we sub¬ 
mit ? If we submit to this we will submit to even greater evils. 
It is a party founded upon a system destructive to our whole so¬ 
cial fabric, and which would reduce the beautiful South to a howl¬ 
ing wilderness. Can we submit to such a party ? In my opin¬ 
ion, we should not ask if that party hates us. I tell you, in proof 
of what I say, you can refer to their societies. Look to their 
press, their public speakers, look to their sympathy expressed, 
not only by mobs and violence, but by representative bodies, in 
their courts of justice, as evidence of this. There you find the 
John Brown feeling. The bells toll with all the pomp and cir¬ 
cumstances of pageantry, as if a great martyr had suffered. 
When we remember what Brown intended, we understand their 
sympathy towards us. The question then is, what are we to do ? 
In my opinion, the South ought not to submit.” 

I affirm that it is not only unreasonable that the Southern cit¬ 
izens should revolt against the glorious Republic founded by their 
immortal fathers, but that it is in the nature of the case impossi¬ 
ble for them to do so. And I shall show you that they 

Are not fighting against our Government. 

That they have never found fault with our Government. 

That they never uttered a disrespectful word against our Gov¬ 
ernment ! 

What then is the strife and fighting about ? 

That is a reasonable question. 

The Republican-Abolition Leaders, in every State where they 
gained the ascendency, had perverted the Constitution and made 
it a mere instrument to subserve their own purposes, to the in¬ 
convenience of the South and the overthrow of their Institutions. 
And finally elected a man to the Chief Magistracy pledged to 
the overthrow of their Rights. 

That was the matter. The South became alarmed at the Re¬ 
publican perversions of the Government and their violations of 
the Constitution, and their persistent interference with their In¬ 
stitutions, and having no other redress, upon the accession of 
their enemies to the head of Government, they felt compelled to 


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defend themselves against the unlawful aggressions of Abolition 
Tyrants. They beheld their institutions threatened. They 

were Americans, which explains why they would not permit 
Abolition encroachments upon their rights. 

They separated from the North to save their Institutions. 
The institution of Slavery was at stake. With its abolishment 
would come their overthrow. 

Before their institutions were disturbed by the Abolition 
peace-breakers, the prosperity of our Country—North and South 
—was unprecedented. In Commerce, Mechanism, the Fine 
Arts, Agriculture, Wealth, Religion and Education, our Country 
was second to none on the Globe. Such was our history under 
the influence and by the aid of Democracy. The Union was so 
strongly cemented that a dissolution was considered impossible 
by many. Yet in view of the rapidly growing sentiments of Abo¬ 
litionism, Hons. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and Millard Fill¬ 
more predicted it. 

As a Nation we were admired for our goodness, and feared 
for our greatness, by all Nations. 

Slavery w'as national, existing North and South. The North 
abolished it for its unprofitableness, and the slaves, with few ex¬ 
ceptions were sold to Southern slaveholders. 

Secession of the South. 

It was not from choice. 

They saw no other alternative. 

They were threatened by Abolition Despotism, 

And had to retire or be degraded. 

We will review briefly the testimonies of several distinguished 
Southern Statesmen. 

Gen. McGowen, 

He said— 

“ The Dissolution of the Union 
Was Not a Desirable thing. 

“ That he appreciated the great advantages we had enjoyed under 
Our Glorious Institutions. 

“ That he was in favor of a Dissolution of the Union, 


Not from Choice, 

But from Necessity, 

Not Per Se, but Ex-Necessitate ! 

That he was for struggling to the last with the watchword : 

The CONSTITUTION and Southern RIGHTS.” 

Hon. Mr. Yulee said— 

“ Some Defensive Policy 
Will be Indispensible, 

because, being now in a settled minority , they —the Southern 
States—are without means of effective self-defence against 
The Mischievous and Aggressive Use 
of the Federal Power, which the more numerous and powerful 
states of the Northern section will have permitted and authorized 
if they place such a party—the Republican party—in charge of 
the Government.” Again, 

“ It is Most Desirable iu many grave aspects, 

To Preserve the Union of the States, 

Even with Much Sacrifice, 

But we must have Peace ! 

We desire to Remain United 
With Our Friends in the North ; 
many important interests, , and our accustomed feelings, may at¬ 
tach us to the present Union ; but 

We Must J^ST* Defend and Maintain 
the security and happiness of our families and firesides. 

I am convinced after careful observation 

That we require New Guarantees 
In the Union. 

The existing state of disquiet and violence proves the necessity. 

There is no Peace in the Land, 
nor any general harmony between the States. We should ar¬ 
range together, 

Now and at Once, 

For Living in Peace, 

Or Parting in Peace.” 

Such were the sentiments of the Southern States. They nei¬ 
ther desired secession nor war. 


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The above, coming from eminent Statesmen of the South, must 
convince you that they seceded because they were compelled to, 
or do worse, under an Abolition President, who might at an un¬ 
expected moment, through his emissaries, overthrow their Insti¬ 
tutions, create a servile insurrection, and cause the massacre of 
many thousands of a single night. 

Southern Statesmen never complained of the Constitution and 
Government of our Country. They never assailed the Institu¬ 
tions of the North. Therefore, with all their errors, they are 
certainly less censurable, by far, than the Abolition Tyrants. 

Lincoln & Co. have ever been Government and Union-Fault¬ 
finders. They had assaulted the Southern Senators, and de¬ 
nounced them in the Senate Chamber—in their churches—and 
through the press as “ barbarians” “ thieves,” “ robbers,” H cut¬ 
throats” and the “ fosterers” of “ the sum of all villainies” 
Nor is this all, they had the effroiitry to threaten their overthrow 
on the Congress floor for many years. 

Thus they destroyed the harmony that had so long and hap¬ 
pily existed between the North and South. Prejudices and ani¬ 
mosities sprang up and spread throughout both sections. 

That the abused party in the strife committed errors and ag¬ 
gravated the difficulties is not denied, nor is it at all surprising. 

But Lincoln & Co. are the primary offenders and should be 
brought to justice. 

The South prayed for new guarantees of security in the Union, 
but the Republican Leaders were inexorable, inconciliatory, and 
insisted upon their aggressive, dishonorable and unconstitutional 
measures, until separation finally took place. But for that, to¬ 
day, instead of madness and barbarity ruling the nation, Unity, 
the honor and hope of a Christian people, would be shedding up¬ 
on the world an unfading halo of glory. 


CHAPTER SEVENTH. 


The Causes of the War. 

The Colonies—Their Leagues of Friendship—Its Object—The Com¬ 
pact—The Treaty of Peace with Great Britaiu—The Several States 
each recognised as Independent. 

To arrive at the Cause of the war, it is necessary to review 
the relations which existed between the States which constituted 
them the United States—and the Principal Events which have 
led to the war. 

It is well known that originally, our oountry was composed of 
Colonies. These Colonies made war upon Great Britain, be¬ 
cause of her Oppression. They then Allied together and formed 
themselves into a Confederation, each Colony assuming the name 
State, and in their Combination, the United States, 

THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDSHIP : 

Its Object. 

The Colonies entered—I use their words—“ Severally into a 
Firm League of Friendship with each other for their common 
Defence : the Security of their Liberties, and their mutual and 
general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against 
All Force offered to or attacks made upon them or any of them, 
on account of Religion, Sovereignty, Trade, or any other pre¬ 
tense whatever.” 

That 7 s the Compact. It plainly shows that in entering into 
it, they did not Resign any of the Rights which they possessed 
as Colonies. They still retained their Sovereignty. And to 
guard themselves against Political Impostors, and designing 
Demagogues, they, the Several States, made an explicit Decla¬ 
ration, in a distinct article that 


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“ Each State Shall Retain- It3 Sovereignty, 
Freedom, and Independence, 

And Every Power, 

Jurisdiction and Right, 

which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the 
United States in Congress assembled.” 

That, Fellow Freemen, is the Original Compact which made 
ns a Great Nation of Freemen. They agreed to unite for each 
other’s protection and mutual welfare, but Reserved each , 
the Sovereignty and Independence it possessed Before the com¬ 
pact. 

This Compact was Never changed nor repealed , and to-day 
Every State is a Nation within itself , and the Union of the 
States is a Union of Nations. 

We may as properly be called, the United Nations, as the 
United States. 

According to this Compact No One State has a right 
to Interfere with the Laws and Institutions of another State, 
nor can the Majority of States in one Section jggy* Interfere 
with the Laws and Institutions of the Minority of States in 
Another Section. 

This makes the Territories of our Country, Equally the Pro¬ 
perty of All the States, whose inhabitants have an Equal Right 
of entering into them . with or without property, and with 
whatever property they have, and ( when the population justifies 
it) to form their Laws and Institutions as the majority may 
decide. Jefferson said, “ The capital and leading object of the 
Constitution was, to leave with the States all authorities which 
respected their own citizens only, and to transfer to the United 
States those which respected citizens of foreign States : to make 
os several as to ourselves, but one as to all others.” 

Had this principle been carried out in good faith and by 
honorable measures, the peaceful machinery of Government 
would have continued to the present. 

'* In the year of our Lord 1783, the United States effected 

THE TREATY OF PEACE WITH GREAT 
BRITAIN. 


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By the terms of this Treaty 

j£3*2T The several States were each by name, 
Recognized to be Independent. 

The Articles of Confederation contained a clause whereby all 
alterations were prohibited, unless confirmed by the Legislatures 
of every State, after being agreed to by the Congress ; and in 
obedience to this provision under the resolution of Congress of 
Feb. 21, 1187, the several States appointed Delegates who 
attended a Convention—“for the SOLE and express purpose 
of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Con¬ 
gress and the several Legislatures such alterations and provisions 
therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by 
the States, render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exi¬ 
gencies of government and the preservation of the Union. 

It was by the delegates chosen by the several States, under 
the resolutions just quoted, that the Constitution of the United 
States was framed in A.D. 1187, and submitted to the several 
States for ratification, as shown by the seventh article, which is 
in these words : 

“ The ratification of the conventions of nine States shall be 
sufficient for the establishment of this Constitution between the 
States so ratifying the same.” 

The Constitution of 1181 having, however, 

Omitted the clause already recited 
from the articles of confederation, which provided in explicit 
terms 

That EACH State 

Retained its Sovereignty and Independence, 
some alarm was felt in the States when invited to ratify the 
Constitution, 

Lest this OMISSION should be construed 
Into an Abandonment 
Of their cherished principles, 

and they refused to be satisfied until amendments were added to 
the Constitution, placing beyond any pretence or doubt 
US- The reservation by the States 
Of all their Sovereign 
Rights and Powers, 


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not expressly delegated to the United States by the Constitu¬ 
tion. 

Your attention is called to the singular and marked caution 
with which the States endeavored in every possible form to 
exclude the idea that the Separate and Independent Sover¬ 
eignty of Each State was merged into One Common Govern¬ 
ment and Nation, and the earnest desire they evinced to impress 
on The Constitution its true character—that of a Compact between 
Independent States. 

EARLY TENDENCIES TO MONARCHY 
The First Leap toward the War. 

Strange indeed must it appear to the impartial observer, but 
it is none the less true, that all these carefully worded clauses 
proved unavailing to prevent the rise and growth in the Northern 
States of a Political School which has persistently claimed that 
the Government thus formed, was Not a Compact between 
States, but was in effect a 

NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, 

Set up and above the other States, 

An organization, created by the States to secure the blessings 
of Liberty and Independence against foreign aggression, has 
been perverted into a machine for their control in their domestic 
affairs: the creature— The National Government has been ex¬ 
alted above its Creators —the States ; the principals have been 
made subordinate to the Agent appointed by themselves. 

ONE SECTION ENRICHED AT THE EXPENSE OF 
THE OTHER. 

The Second Leap toward the War. 

The people of the Southern States whose almost exclusive 
occupation was agriculture, early perceived a tendency in the 
Northern States, to render the common Government subservient 
to their own purposes, 

By imposing burdens on Commerce 
as a protection to their manufacturing and shipping interests. 


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Long and angry controversy grew out of these attempts, often 
successful, 

TO BENEFIT ONE SECTION OF THE COUNTRY 
At the expense of the other. 

And the danger of disruption arising from this cause was en¬ 
hanced by the fact that the Northern population was increasing 
by immigration and other causes in a greater ratio than the 
population of the South. By degrees as the .Northern States 
gained preponderance in the National Congress, self-interest 
taught their people to yield ready assent to any plausible advo¬ 
cacy of their right as a majority to govern the minority without 
control. And so utterly have the principles of the Constitution 
been corrupted in the Northern mind, that in the Inaugural 
Address by President Lincoln, he asserts as an axiom, which he 
plainly deems to be undeniable, that the theory of the Constitu¬ 
tion requires that in All cases the majority shall govern ;— 

that is to say, that The majority of States shall govern the 

minority of States even to their discomfort and ruin—and in 
another memorable instance, President Lincoln did not hesitate 
to liken the relations between a State and the United States to 
those which exist between a County and the State in which it is 
situated, and by which it was created. 

This is the lamentable and fundamental error on which rests 
the policy that has culminated in his declaration of war against 
the Southern States. 

Abolition War against Slavery 
For nearly Half a Century. 

The Third Leap toward the War. 

In addition to the long-continued and deep-seated resentment 
felt by the Southern States at the persistent abuse of the powers 
they had delegated to the Congress, for the purpose of enrich¬ 
ing the manufacturing and shipping classes of the North at the 
expense of the South, there has existed for nearly half a century 
another subject of discord, involving interests of such transcen¬ 
dent magnitude as at all times to create the apprehension in the 


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minds of many devoted lovers of the Union, that its permanence 
was impossible. 

When the several States delegated certain powers to the 
United States Congress, a large portion of the laboring popula¬ 
tion consisted of African slaves, imported into the Colonies by 
the mother couutry. In twelve out of the thirteen States, ne¬ 
gro slavery existed, and the right of property in slaves was pro¬ 
tected by law. This property was recognized in the Constitution, 
and provision was made against its loss by the escape of the 
slave. 

The increase in the number of slaves by furtherfimportation 
from Africa was also secured by a clause forbidding Congress to 
prohibit the Slave Trade anterior to a certain date, and in no 
clause can there be found any delegation of power to the Con¬ 
gress authorizing it in any manner to legislate to the prejudice, 
detriment or discouragement of the owners of that species of 
property, or excluding it from the protection of the Govern¬ 
ment. 

Why the North prohibited Slavery 1 

The climate and soil of the Northern States soon proved un- 
propitious to the continuance of slave-labor, while the converse 
was the case of the South. 

Under the unrestricted free intercourse between the two sec¬ 
tions, the Northern States consulted their own interests by sell¬ 
ing their slaves to the South, and prohibiting slavery within 
their limits. The South were willing purchasers of a property 
suitable to their wants, and paid the price for the acquisition 
without harboring a suspicion that their quiet possession was to 
be disturbed by those who were inhibited, not only by want of 
constitutional authority, but by good faith as venders, from dis¬ 
quieting a title emanating from themselves. 

Anti-Slavery Institutions Inaugurated, 

And Hostile Measures adopted, 

By the men who originated the Republican Party. 

As soon, however, as the Northern States that prohibited 
African slavery within their limits had reached a number suffi- 


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cient to give their representation a controlling voice in the Con¬ 
gress, a persistent and organized system of hostile measures 
against the rights of the owners of slaves in the Southern States 
was inaugurated and gradually extended. 

A continuous series of measures were devised and prosecuted 
for the purpose of rendering insecure the tenure of property in 
slaves. 

Fanatical organizations, supplied with money by voluntary 
subscriptions, were assiduously engaged in exciting among the 
slaves a spirit of discontent and revolt. 

Means wen furnished for their escape from their owners, and 
agents secretly employed to entice them to abscond. 

The constitutional provisions for their return to their owners 
was first evaded, then openly announced as a violation of conscien¬ 
tious obligations and religious duty. 

Men were taught that it was a merit to dude, disobey and 
violently oppose the execution of the laws enacted, to secure the per¬ 
formance, in the Constitutional compact. 

Owners of slaves were mobbed and even murdered in open day , 
solely for applying to a magistrate for the arrest of a fugitive 
slave, by men who were prominent in the formation of the Re¬ 
publican Party. 

The Allies of Abolitionists. 

Many of the Northern Legislatures early became the allies of 
the Abolitionists against slavery, being 

The Fourth Leap toward the War. 

The dogmas of these Abolition organizations soon obtained 
control of the Legislatures of many of the Northern States, and 
laws were passed providing for the punishment by ruinous fines , 
and long continued imprisonment in jail and penitentiaries , 
of citizens of the Southern States who should dare to ask aid 
of the officers of the law for the recovery of their property. 

The Abolition War in Congress. 

The Abolition war against slavery was next transferred to 
the Congress, being 

The Fifth Leap toward the War. 


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Emboldened by success, the theatre of agitation and aggres¬ 
sion against the clearly expressed Constitutional Rights of the 
Southern States was transferred to Congress. Senators and 
Representatives were sent to the Common Council of the Nation 
whose chief title to this distinction consisted in the display of 
ultra fanaticism, and whose aim was not to promote the welfare or 
insure domestic tranquillity; hut to awaken the bitterest hatred 
against the citizens of sister States , by violent denunciations of their 
Institutions . 

The transaction of public affairs was impeded by repeated ef¬ 
forts to usurp powers, not delegated by the Constitution, for the 
purpose of imparmg the security of property in slaves, and 
reducing those States which held slaves to a condition of in¬ 
feriority. 

Anti-Slavery Elements 

consolidated, to make a decisive onslaught on Southern Institu¬ 
tions, under the deceptive name, Republican, 

The Sixth and Damning Leap 

toward the War. 

Finally, a great party was organized for the purpose of ob¬ 
taining the Administration of the Government, with the avowed 
object of using its power for the total exclusion of the Slave 
States from all participation in the benefits of the Public Do¬ 
main, acquired by all the States in common, whether by conquest 
or purchase —of surrounding the Slave States entirely by States 
in which slavery should be prohibited of thus rendering the 
property of slaves so insecure, as to be comparatively worthless, 
and thereby annihilating in effect, Property worth thousands of 
millions of dollars. 

With interests of such overwhelming magnitude imperiled , the 
people of the Southern States were driven to the adoption of 
some course of action to avert the danger with which they were 
openly menaced. 

With this view the Legislatures of the several States invited 
the people to select delegates to Conventions to be held for the 


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purpose of determining for themselves what measures were best 
adapted to meet so alarming a crisis in their history. 

The Conventions were held, and the result was Secession, or a 
separation from the Northern States, and as a result of that, 
Coercion and War. 


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CHAPTER EIGHTH. 

Lincoln & Co. the Authors of the War.—Proved by Mr. Lincoln in an 
interesting dialogue between Miss Quizz, Mr. Lincoln, and his most dis¬ 
tant relative, Mrs. Truth.—Established by eighty unimpeachable witness¬ 
es in the persons of Col. Webb, Seward, Helper, sixty-eight Republican 
members of Congress, l)uval of Massachusetts, Gen. Schurz, Stevens of 
Pennsylvania, Hall, Burlingame, Giddings, and others. 

Abraham Lincoln evidently intended to agitate the subject of 
slavery until he involved our Country in fratricidal war. For 
what ? To benefit the Negro ? So they pretend, but not so 
much for the Negro as for his own interests, as you will see. 

A Dialogue 

between Miss Quizz, Mr. Lincoln, and Mrs. Truth, 

On the Irrepressible Crisis. 

Being the first witness and a self-convicted testimony that the 
Republican Leaders 

Are Responsible for the War. 

N. B.—Mr. Lincoln’s replies are taken from his speech deliv¬ 
ered at Springfield, Ill., in A. D. 1858, on the slavery agitation. 

Miss Quizz. I understand, Mr. Lincoln, that you are an ad¬ 
vocate of the Irrepressible Crisis. May I have the pleasure of 
hearing directly your opinion upon the slavery agitation. 

Mr. Lincoln. “In my opinion it—the slavery agitation—will 
not cease until a crisis shall have reached us and passed.” 

Mrs. Truth. And your opinion, Abraham, is based upon the 
fact that you and your co-partisans are determined that “ it— 
the slavery agitation ”—shall not cease until a crisis shall have 
reached and passed, involving our Country in a civil and terrible 
War for the freedom of the Negro ! 

Miss Quizz. Some tell me, Mr. Lincoln, that the founders of 
our Independence established a permanent Government. Others 
tell me they did not. How was that, sir ? 

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Mr. Lincoln. “1 believe this Government 
Cannot Endure Permanently, 

Half Slave and Half Free.” 

Mrs. Truth. Our Government did endure permanently ,— 
“ both slave and free,”—for many years, Abraham, .with a pros¬ 
perity, in all that constitutes a great Nation, unprecedented in 
the history of the world, and would have “endured permanently’* 
to the end of time, if you, Abraham, and your Abolition col¬ 
leagues had let the South alone and attended to your own busi¬ 
ness. 

The reason you believd that this Government cannot endure 
permanently, “half slave and half free,” is that you, Abraham, 
and your Abolition associates, have determined that it shall not 
endure 'permanently. There is no reason why it should not en¬ 
dure, if you and your co- Abolition agitators would “study to be 
quiet and do your own business,” and “ not esteem yourselves 
better than others.” 

Now, Abraham, if you desire the permanency of the Govern¬ 
ment, cease your slavery agitation, and your fighting ; call a 
Convention of the States, and let them reorganize under the com¬ 
pact of our Fathers ; and renew the guarantee that each State 
shall be under its own government, and regulate its own Institu¬ 
tions, with which no power shall ever interfere. 

Then, Abraham, the South will return to their allegiance, and 
Peace will be restored to our distracted land. 

Miss Quizz. Do you expect a dissolution of our Union, Mr. 
Lincoln, or the abolition of slavery ? 

Mr. Lincoln. “ I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I 
do not expect the house to fall —but I do expect it will cease to 
be divided. It will become 

All One Thing or the Other.” 

Mrs. Truth. Abraham, you have at least a mediocrity of 
mind, nor have you forgotten that a maul and wedges properly 
applied will split rails. As well do you know that the domestic 
relations of our Country, so vast and varied, could not be radi¬ 
cally changed—except by compromise and concessions—without 
dissolving our Union and destroying our Government 1 


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Miss Quizz. The platform upon which you were elected to 
the Presidency, and which you were pledged to support, had for 
one of its cardinal points, 

The Entire Exclusion of the South 
From the Territories with their Slaves. 

Some say that this no slave Territory principle had nothing to 
do with slavery in the slave States. Others say it had ; that it 
was intended ultimately to extinguish or abolish slavery in ALL 
the SOUTHERN STATES. Will you please state which view 
is correct, or what the Republican Leaders intended to accom¬ 
plish by excluding slaves from the Territories ? 

Mr. Lincoln. “ Either the opponents of slavery will arrest 
the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall 
rest in the belief that it is in * 

The Course of Ultimate Extinction !” 

Mrs. Truth. “ Iu the course of ultimate extinction ! !” That 
means its absolute Abolition. It can mean nothing else. And 
that is just what you desire. The total extinction of slavery has 
ever been the aim of your party. Your everyday proceedings 
indicate it, still your aim. You are an Abolitionist, Abraham. 
There is no use for you to deny it. Facts speak louder than 
words, and they all agree in your CONDEMNATION. You 
once had a reason for disguising this fact. You know that in 
your real character you never could have been elected President 
You assumed the name Republican, and your promises of “ free 
homes,” 11 free soil,” 11 peace and prosperity,” ah, they procured 
the votes that made you President. Little did the noble confi¬ 
ding workingmen think when they deposited their vote for “ Hon¬ 
est Old Abe” that they were voting for an Abolitionist ; for Se¬ 
cession, War and Conscription ; for the “ ultimate extinction of 
slavery,” the destruction of our Republic, and the establishment 
of a Monarchy ; for the humiliation of free workingmen, the ele¬ 
vation of the Negro, and the disgrace of humanity ! 

I must speak plainly to you, Abraham, although a very dis¬ 
tant relation to you, because of my interest in the welfare of our 
Country. You have pursued a very unwise course. You cer¬ 
tainly knew that the magnanimity of the South would not toler- 


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ate Abolition proscription, even in its mildest form. But your 
exactions are very severe, involving hundreds of millions worth 
of property, and rendering the South inferior to, and dependent 
upon the North. Your policy is exclusively Abolition—so inso¬ 
lent and humiliating, so unjust and cruel, so inhuman and demo¬ 
niacal, that it could not but drive the South from the Union and 
to arms. But that is the aim and expectation of your party, 
Abraham, and you cannot deny it. 

Miss Quizz. Suppose, Mr. Lincoln, that the opponents of 
slavery should fail to check its spread in the Territories, and its 
ultimate extinction, what would follow ? 

Some say that the South would force the Slave system upon 
the North, and make it lawful in all the States ! 

Do you believe that the slaveholders have such desire ? 

Mr . Lincoln. “Its advocates will push it—slavery—forward 
till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new— 
North as well as South.” 

Mrs. Truth. Why, Abraham, Satan hath surely come down 
upon you with great power ; for neither man nor fiend could 
speak so devoid of truth, except by direct inspiration from the 
Prince of Darkness. 

Neither the press, the pulpit, nor the orators of the South, 
ever uttered a senteuce from which such an inference could be 
drawn. 

You have borne false witness against your Southern neigh¬ 
bors, and shamefully deceived your Northern friends. 

Because you know that slavery can never be “ pushed forward 
till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new, 
North as well as South.” 

Because you know that the advocates of Slavery would not 
if they could—and that they never expressed a desire to “ push 
slavery forward till it should become lawful in all the States, old 
as well as new, North as well as South.” 

Ah, Abraham, the separation of the North and South and the 
overthrow of their Institutions have been your long cherished 
hope. 

You could have saved the Union, but you and your co-shoddy 


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emissaries would not. You offered no compromise, and rejected 
every proposition tending to peace. Tor the slightest pretext 
you rushed madly to war. Nor have you striven to modify its 
horrors. You have no promise but a war of extermination, 
except upon the abandonment of Slavery. Ah, Abraham, the 
idea of Restoration has never entered your heart. Every step 
you take proves your aspirations run too high. You see un¬ 
limited power ahead, and you are willing to risk your life to 
grasp it. 

Beliold, the great day of your country’s wrath has come, and 
you will not be able to stand. 

You shall have to render a fearful account to an indignant 
Judge—the freemen of America—for all your deeds, secretly 
before, and openly, since your inauguration. 

Then shall you flee to the Prairies and in vain call for your 
Split Rails to fall upon you and hide you from the face of Gen. 
McClellan, and save you from the ire of insulted and oppressed 
FREEMEN. 

“ For you have set at naught all my counsels, and would none 
of ray reproof. 

Therefore shall you eat of the fruit of your own way, and be 
filled with your own devices. 

For he that hardeneth his heart and stiffcnetli his neck shall 
suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.” 

The Second Witness 

Proving Mr. Lincoln’s confession true that he and his colleagues 
are responsible for the war. 

Col. Webb, of New York. 

Col. Webb is a prominent Republican Leader. He declared 
several years since that he was “ ready to shoulder his musket 
and march against the South.” 

At another time he declared that 

' “ The South should be whipped into obedience to the North, 
and their Leaders should terminate their existence 

On the Gallows.” 


-the Republicans—“ fail 


At another time he said, “If we”— 
at the Ballot Box, what then ? 

WE will drive it —Slavery—back, sword in hand. 

And so help me God ! believing that to be Right, I am with 
them.” 

Third— Self-convicting —W itness 
that the Republican Leaders are responsible for the war. 

Hon. W. H. Seward, 

The Most Prominent Republican— 

The Most Dangerous Anti-Slavery Agitator,’ 

And the Author of the “ Irrepressible Conflict.” 

Hon. W. H. Seward acknowledged in his Speech at Detroit 
that the Republican Party or Wide-awakes were “ A New 
and anomalous combination of citizens in the North , justifying 
armed instigators of 

JS32T Civil and Servile War in the South ! 

This is a fair photograph of Modern Republicanism by, we 
might say, its Author and Founder. 

Notice the character of his speeches, during the Presidential 
canvass, from Maine to Kansas and back to the City of New 
York, his absorbing theme was “ The Irrepressible Conflict.” 
Everywhere prophecying that 

“ Lincoln’s election would be 
The Downfall of Slavery.” 

And he might as well have added, 

The Downfall of American Freedom. 

s 

Such was the design of the Republican Leaders. They knew 
that the Downfall of Slavery would be preceded by a separation 
of the South from the North. They knew this would furnish a 
pretext for war : and yet they continued to agitate the subject 
which they knew would produce these disastrous results. 

Sixty-Eight 

Republican Members of Congress 
Endorsed Helper’s Book — the hand-book of treason ; —proving 
that Lincoln & Co. are responsible for the war ! 

Helper’s Book ! was the Republican text-book. It is an 


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infamous book, abounding with Falsehoods, Slanders, and Trea¬ 
sonable Doctrines, from first to last. 

The object of this Book was revolution—the overthrow of our 
Democratic Government and the establishment of an Abolition 
Despotic Government. Hear for yourself. 

On page 14, speaking of slavery, he says : u It is a paramount 
duty to adopt effectual and judicious measures for 

ITS IMMEDIATE SUPPRESSION.” 

“ The questions now arise. How can the evil be averted ? 
What are the most prudent and practical means that can be de¬ 
vised for the abolition of slavery 

Page 15, he says, “ Never before was there such an appropri¬ 
ate period to strike for Freedom in the South.” 

Page 16 : “ Inscribed on the banner which we herewith un¬ 
furl to the world, with the full and fixed determination to stand 
by it or die by it, are the mottoes which, in substance, embody 
the principles, as we conceive, that should govern us in our patri¬ 
otic warfare against the most subtle and invidious foe that ever 
menaced the inalienable rights and liberties and dearest interests 
of America.” 

On page 16, he recommends (and Lincoln and Co. en¬ 
dorsed it) : 

11 1st. Thorough organization and independent political action 
on the part of the non-slaveholding whites of the South. 

2d. Ineligibility of Pro-Slavery Slaveholders— 

Never another Vote to Any One 
who advocates the retention and perpetuation of human slavery. 

3d. No Co-operation with Pro-Slavery Politicians : 

No Fellowship with them in Religion : 

No Affiliation with them in Society. 

4th. No Patronage to Pro-Slavery Merchants : 

No Guestsiiip in Slave-Waiting Hotels : 

No Fees to Pro-Slavery Lawyers : 

No Employment to Pro-Slavery Physicians : 

No Audience to Pro-Slavery Parsons. 

5th. No more Hiring of Slaves by Non-Slaveholders. 


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6th. Abrupt Discontinuance of Subscription 
To Pro-Slavery Newspapers 
7th. The greatest possible Encouragement to Free 
White Labor.” 

“This,” he continues, “is the outline of our scheme for the 
abolition of slavery in the Southern States.” 

Now, fellow freemen, what do you think of this abolition 
book ? Could any person true to his country endorse it ? How 
can we regard them who did, aught but traitors? Verily, Lin¬ 
coln and Co. are responsible for the sentiments of this book and 
the evils resulting from it. 

The Lincoln Republican Leaders circulated hundreds of thou¬ 
sands of this hand-book of treason, and 

Sixty-Eight 

Republican members of Congress endorsed it. 

Why did they endorse it ? Because they knew its treasonable 
principles would lead to Secession and involve our country in 
war. Why did they desire war ? Because it would be a fruit¬ 
ful source of speculation to them, with a fair show of constitute 
ing them perpetual rulers. 

Therefore they are responsible for the war. Remember it, 
freemen ! Remember it at the polls, and be their Helpers from 
the alarming position they unfortunately occupy. 

Seventy-Second Witness 

that the Republican Leaders are responsible for the war. 

W. O. Duval, 

of Massachusetts, a prominent Republican. He hoped for a 
civil war, and that the streets might run with blood up to the 
horses’ bridles. 

These are his words : “ I sincerely hope a civil war will soon 
burst upon the country. I want to see American slavery abol¬ 
ished in my time. Then my most fervent prayer is, that Eng¬ 
land, France and Spain may take 

JThis Slave-Accursed Nation 
into their special consideration, and when the time arrives for 


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the streets of the cities of this 1 Land of the free and home of 
the brave/ 

To run with Blood 

Up to the Horses’ Bridles, 

if I be living, there will be one heart to rejoice, at the retribution 
of Heaven.” 

That, fellow freemen, is Republican Abolitionism. It is 
treason—deep-dyed and damning treason. 

It seems to me that no man can conscientiously vote for the 
Republican Leaders. 

The Seventy-Third Witness 
that the Republican Leaders are responsible for the war. 

The Republicans of Massachusetts held a grand mass meeting 
on the 15th of June, 1862. They acknowledged themselves 
Abolitionists, and proved themselves traitors, in the following 
resolution : 

“ Resolved, that as Abolitionists, devoted to the great 
work of 

Overthrowing Slavery, 
we renew and repeat our old pledge, 

No Union with Slaveholders ; 

No Support of any Administration— 

No Support of any Government, 

That permits Slavery 
On any Portion of its Soil : 
and we value this war only as we believe 
It must lead to Emancipation 
by order of the Federal Authorities, or 

To a Dissolution of the Union, 
which must speedily produce the same result ”—viz., Emancipa¬ 
tion,—which they knew would be preceded by a most horrid 
war. 

The Seventy-Fourth Witness 
that the Republican Leaders are responsible for the war. 

Gen. Carl Sciiurz. 

This gentleman is a distinguished Abolition statesman and 

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orator, a citizen of Wisconsin, and late Minister to Spain under 
Abraham Lincoln. 

In a speech delivered at Faneuil Hall, Boston, April 18th, 
1859, he said : “ I am an anti-slavery man, and have a right to 
my opinion ” 

In his party speech in New York city, he uttered the follow¬ 
ing treasonable language : 

“ The old Union is Dead. 

If Jeff Davis and his followers were to submit at the foot of 
Capitol Hill, and repent in sackcloth and ashes, 

The Old Union could not be restored .” 

Mark it, “ the old Union,” the poor, despicable Union, “ could 
not be restored .” What treason 1 

This TRAITOR lias held a commission under Mr. Lincoln, 
and yet we are told that Mr. Lincoln is not an Abolitionist. No 
true Union President would give an office to an Abolitionist. 

The Seventy-Fifth Witness 

that the Republican Leaders desired the war, and are responsible 
for it. 

Hon. Thaddeus Stevens. 

This gentleman is a leading Republican Senator of Penn¬ 
sylvania. 

He proved his love for the Union by the following treasonable 
language : 

“ Let Civil War come, 

it would not be half so disasterous to the interests of humanity as 
, the Disruption of the Republican Party.” 

This is the idea—let the Union be dissolved , but save the Re¬ 
publican Party. 

Now he and his co-traitors claim to be fighting for “the 
Union.” They have poisoned our country by their treason, and 
now pretend to vivify it by the barbarities of war. 

Fellow Freemen, answer at the Ballot-Box whether it is 
more important to save the Republican Party—or the country by 
the election of General McClellan. 


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The Seventy-Sixth Witness 
that tlie Republican Leaders are responsible for the war. 

Hon. Anson Burlingame. 

This gentleman was a popular Republican Senator. 

He made a bloody threat to exterminate every northern citi¬ 
zen opposed to the execrable disunion plots of the Republican 
Party. He said : “ When we shall have elected a President—• 
as we will—and after we have exterminated the miser able dough¬ 
faces from the North, then, if the pitiful slave Senate will not 
give way, we will grind it between the upper and the nether 
mill-stones of our Power.” 

It cannot be denied that these Senators and leading Republi¬ 
cans expressed the feeling of the Republican Leaders generally. 

They glory in “ our Power,” and have used it too, by demon¬ 
strations wholly inconsistent with a Free Republic and Civili¬ 
zation. 




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CHAPTER NINTH. 

Undeniable Facts 

That Lincoln <$* Co. are the Authors of the War. 

1. They could have prevented it but they would not. 

2. The South desired to remain in the Union with their Rights, or sep¬ 
arate in Peace. But Lincoln & Co. rejected all propositions tending to 
Peace.—Proved in an interesting Dialogue between Bishop Goodman and 
Jeff. Davis. 

3. Their unanimous rejection of the Chittenden Compromise and the 
great Peace Convention. 

4. The deception they practised on the Southern Commissioners. 

5. “The first gun fired.”—Seward’s confession that they forced the 
South to fire the first gun in order to give the War, in the eyes of the 
Northern People, the aspect of having been begun by the South! 

1. The Republican Leaders bad the power of preventing the 
War but they would not employ it. This is ample evidence that 
they desired it and are responsible for it. 

“ When Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet saw the determination 
of the South to secede and establish an independent Confederacy, 
they should have considered and recognized at once, the growing 
facts, and set about the onerous task of saving the Country from 
the commercial revulsion and ruin that was sure to follow the 
great rupture of political and material interests. They were not 
fools and they certainly knew that coercion would inevitably 
bring civil war with all its train of evils. They knew it would 
endanger, and in a measure, stop commerce, and paralyze indus¬ 
try, and that the seceding States would be forced to use the 
rights of war against us.” 

o o 

Had the Republican Leaders feared God and loved their 
Country, they would not have said to the Southern States, “ Thus 
far shalt thou go and no farther,” but they would have recog¬ 
nized, for the benefit of their Country, the following facts : 


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1st. That, they came into power, accidentally, by the votes of 
only about one-third of the people. 

2d. That in the Southern States generally, they were univer¬ 
sally repudiated. 

3d. That the bordering Southern States were unanimous 
against their political policies. 

4th. That under these circumstances they could not successful¬ 
ly coerce the South without involving the whole Country in a 
ruinous internecine war. 

5th. That it was their duty to furnish the nation with a pro¬ 
gramme of their policy,—such as Conciliation , Compromise , 
Peace. 

Had they done this, they would have saved us the terrible 
realities of this ruinous war. 

But this was not in their programme—they desired the war. 

That is evident from the fact that even after the Southern 
States had seceded, the difficulties might have been settled , and 
our Country preserved from war, had our Leaders in power been 
co?iciliatory an & peaceable. 

Second Fact 

that Lincoln & Co. are the authors of the war, namely, that the 
Southern States were not inclined to war, they desired to re¬ 
main in the Union, or to separate in Peace. But mark, 
the Republican Leaders refused to come to terms ; there¬ 
fore they are responsible for the war—not the South. 

These irresistible facts are developed in the following 
Important Dialogue 
between Bishop Goodman and Jeff. Davis. 

(The answers by Jeff. Davis are taken from his message of 
April 29, 1861.) ’ 

Bishop. The Democrats say, Mr. Davis, that in seceding, you 
made Necessity the pretext—not Choice ,—which Mr. Lincoln’s 
friends deny. 

As in the providence of God, I occupy a responsible position 
in the Christian world, I have sought this private interview with 
your Excellency that I might learn from your own lips, on what 


8G 


grounds von justify secession from , and war upon the United 
States Government. 

Jeff. “ Here it may be proper to observe that from a period 
as early as A.D. 1798, there had existed in all of the States of 
the Union a party, almost uninterruptedly in the majority, based 
upon the creed that each State was, in the last resort, the sole 
judge, as well of its ivrongs , as of the mode and measure of re¬ 
dress. 

Indeed it is obvious that under the law of Nations this princi¬ 
ple is an axiom as applied to the relations of independent Sover¬ 
eign States, such as those which had uuited themselves under the 
Constitutional compact.” 

Bishop. I believe you refer to the Democrat Party. Did it 
abide in that doctrine a considerable length of time ? 

Jeff. 11 The Democrat Party of the United States repeated in 
its successful canvass in A.D. 1856, the declaration made in 
numerous previous contests, that it would faithfully abide by 
and uphold the principles laid down in the Kentucky and Vir¬ 
ginia resolutions of A.D. 1198, and in the report of Mr. Madi¬ 
son to the Virginia Legislature in 1199, and that it adopts those 
principles as constituting one of the main foundations of its 
political creed.” 

Bishop. What did these principles embrace ? 

Jeff. “ The principles thus emphatically announced embrace 
that to which I have already averted, 

The Right of Each State 

to judge of and redress the wrongs of which it complains.” 

Bishop). Did these principles attain to any great popularity ? 

Jeff. “ They were maintained by overwhelming majorities of 
the people of all the States of the Union at different elec¬ 
tions,—especially in the elections of Mr. Jefferson in 1805, Mr. 
Madison in 1809, and Mr. Pierce in 1852.” 

Bishop. These are the principles, I understand, upon which 
you justify the act of secession ? 

Jeff. In the exercise of a Right so ancient , so well establish¬ 
ed , and so necessary for se//"-preservation, the people of the Con¬ 
federate States, in their Convention determined, 


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That the Wrongs which They had suffered, 

And the Evils with which They” were Menaced, 
required that they should revoke the delegation of powers to 
the Federal Government which they had ratified in their 
several Conventions. They consequently passed ordinances, 
resuming all their rights, as Sovereign and Independent Slates ; 
and dissolved their connection with the other States of the 
Union. 

Bishop. The Republican Leaders say that your separation 
was effected by the Bayonet, not by the will of the people : 
that it was merely a separation of political Leaders. How is 
that, Mr. Davis ? 

Jeff. “ They proceeded to form a new Compact dmong them¬ 
selves, by new articles of Confederation, which have been 
also ratified by the Conventions of the several States, with 
an approach to Unanimity, far exceeding that of the Conven¬ 
tion which adopted the Constitution of 1787. 

They have organized their new Government in all its de¬ 
partments. The functions of the Executive, Legislative and 
Judicial Magistrates, are performed in accordance 
With the Will of the People, 

as displayed not merely in • a cheerful acquiescence, but in 
the enthusiastic support of the Government thus established 
by themselves, and but for the interference of the Government 
of the United States in this legitimate exercise of 
The Right of a People to Self-Government, 

Peace, Happiness and Prosperity 
Would now smile upon our Land.” 

Bishop. Mr. Lincoln and his friends say, that the Southern 
people are aiming at conquest, and that our own safety depends 
upon their subjugation. The Democrats, however, generally 
discredit that opinion. Is it Peace or War that you desire, 
Mr. Davis ? 

Jeff. “ That Peace is ardently desired by the Southern Gov¬ 
ernment and People, has been manifested in every possible form. 
Prior even to the Inauguration of the Chief Magistrate, they 
passed a resolution expressive of their desires for the ap- 


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pointment of Commissioners, to be sent to the Government of 
the United States. 

For the purpose of Negotiating 
Friendly Relations, 

Between that Government 

And the Confederate States of America : 

And for the Settlement 

Of all Questions of Disagreement, 

Between the two Governments, 

Upon the Principles of 

Right, Justice, Equity, and Good Faith.” 

Bishop. How about the assertion of the Democrats, that 
the South did not Secede from choice, but from Necessity ? 

Jeff. It has been my pleasure as well as my duty to co¬ 
operate with my colleagues in this work of Peace. Indeed, 
in my address on taking the oath of office, and before receiv¬ 
ing from them the communication of this resolution, I had 
said, as a Necessity, not a Choice, we have resorted t.o the 
remedy of separation ; and henceforth our energies must be 
directed to the conduct of our own affairs, and the Perpetuity 
of the Confederacy which we have formed.” 

Bishop. Is it not possible that you were more than ordina¬ 
rily impelled from motives of self-interest ? 

Jeff. “ If a just perception of mutual interest shall permit us 
peacefully to pursue our separate political career, my most 
earnest desire will have been fulfilled.” 

Bishop. An impression is prevalent in our Northern States 
that you were too hasty in your movements against the 
Federal Power, that you ought to have employed and 
exhausted all the means in your power, before taking up 
arms. 

Jeff. “ It was in furtherance of these accordant views of 
the Congress and the Executive that I made choice of 

Three, Discreet, Able and Distinguished Citizens, 

who repaired to Washington, aided by their cordial co-operation 
and of the Secretary of State, every effort compatible with 


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self-respect and the dignity of the Confederacy, was exhausted 
before I allowed myself to yield to the conviction that "* 
The Government of the United States 
Was Determined to Attempt 
The Conquest of this People, 

And that our Cherished Hopes of Peace, 

Were Unattainable ! 

On the arrival of our Commissioners in Washington, on 
the 5th of March, they postponed, at the suggestion of a 
friendly intermediary, doing more than giving informal 
notice of their arrival. This was done with a view to atford 
time to the President, who had just been inaugurated, for 
the discharge of other pressing official duties in the organi¬ 
zation of his Administration, before engaging his attention 
in the object of their mission. It was not until the 12th of 
that month that they officially addressed the Secretary of 
State, informing him of the purpose of their arrival, and stat¬ 
ing, in the language of their instructions, their wish to make 
to the Government of the United States 

OVERTURES 

For the Opening of Negotiations : 

Assuring the Government of the United States, 
that the President, Congress, and People of the Confederate 
States, 

jgggf 0 Earnestly Desire a Peaceful Solution 
of these great questions. 

That it is neither their Interest, 

Nor their Wish, 

To Make any Demand 
Which is not Founded 
On Strictest Justice ; 

Nor DO ANY ACT 
To injure their late Confederates 

Bishop. That was certainly very fair, and worthy of a 
prompt, hearty and favorable response. 

Jeff. “ To this communication no formal reply was received 
until the 8th of April. During the interval the Commission- 


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ers had consented to waive all questions of form. With the 
firm resolve 

To Avoid Wad, if Possible, 

the} 7 went so far even as to hold, during that long period, 
unofficial intercourse through an Intermediary, whose high 
position and character inspired the hope of success, and 
through whom 

Constant Assurances were Received, 
from the Government of the United States, 

OF PEACEFUL INTENTIONS : 

of the determination to Evacuate Fort Sumter , and fur¬ 
ther, that No Measure changing the existing status prejudicial/ 1 / 
to the Confederate States, especially at Fort Pickens, was in 
contemplation, but that in the event of any change of 

intention on the subject, >8^“* Notice would be given to the 
Commissioners. 

The Crooked Paths of Diplomacy 
C an Scarcely Furnish an Example, 

So Wanting in Courtesy, 

In Candor and Directness, 

as was the course of the United States Government toward our 
Commissioners at Washington.” 

Bishop. Some say that the Lincoln Administration had never 
conceived the idea of a peaceful solution of these great questions,— 
that they contemplated war from the beginning, and early com¬ 
menced preparations for it. Now if you can prove your asser¬ 
tions, also this supposition, it will .prove Mr. Lincoln and his 
Advisers to be rank Abolitionists,—and determined upon the 
dissojution of the Union for the sake of achieving their ends. 

Jeff. “ For proofs of the foregoing, I refer to facts which I 
now proceed to relate. Early in April the attention of the 
whole country, as well as that of our Commissioners, was 
attracted 

To Extraordinary Preparations, 

For an Extensive Military 
And Naval Expedition, 


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in New York and other Ngrthern Ports. These preparations 
commenced in secresy ; for an expedition whose destination was 
concealed, 

Only became known when Nearly Completed, 
and on the 5th, 6th and 7th of April, 

Transports and Vessels of War, 

With Troops, Munitions, 

And Military Supplies, 

Sailed from Northern Ports, 

Bound Southward. 

Alarmed by so extraordinary a demonstration, the Commis¬ 
sioners requested the delivery of art answer to their official com¬ 
munication of the 12th March, and thereupon received, on the 
8th of April, a reply dated on the 15th of the previous month, 
from which it appears that during the whole interval while the 
Commissioners were receiving assurances, calculated to inspire 
hopes of the success of their mission, the Secretary of State and 
the President of the United States, had already determined to 
Hold No Intercourse with them whatever ; to refuse even to 
listen to any proposal they had to make ; and had profited by the 
delay, created by their own selfishness ; in order to prepare 
Secretly the means for effectual hostile operations” 

Bishop. These are certainly startling facts, Mr. Davis, but 
some are disposed to dispute them. Last week at the Astor 
House, New York, I heard Dr. C. G. Nation deny in toto some 
of the things you have*just mentioned. 

Jeff. “ That these assurances were given has been virtually 
confessed by the Government of the United States, by its 
sending a Messenger to Charleston to give notice of its purpose 
to use force if opposed in its intention of supplying Fort Sumter. 
No more striking proof of the absence of good faith , in the con¬ 
duct of the Government of the United States, towards this Con¬ 
federacy, can be required, than is contained in the circumstances 
which accompanied this notice. According to the usual course 
of Navigation, the vessels composing the expedition designed 
for the relief of Fort Sumter, might be expected to reach 
Charleston harbor on the 9 th of April; yet with 


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Our Commissioners Actually in Washington, 
Detained Under Assurances 
That Notice Should be Given 
Of any Military Movement, 

the Notice was not addressed to them ; but a Messenger was 
sent to Charleston, to give the notice to the Governor of South 
Carolina : and the notice was so given at a late hour on the 8th 
April, eve of the very day on which the Fleet might be expected 
to arrive.” 

Bishop. They were not actuated, it appears, by the principle 
that “ Honesty is the best policy,” and I am reminded that as 
an offset to that, Providence showed his disapprobation, at least 
of the manner of this procedure, by directing the tempest to repel 
tlieir attack. 

Jeff. “ That this manoeuver failed in its purpose, was not the 
fault of those who contrived it. A heavy tempest delayed the 
arrival of the Expedition, and gave time to the commander of 
our forces at Charleston, to ask and receive the instructions of 
our Government.” 

Bishop. I find that many persons, North, think you made a 
great mistake in 

Firing the First Gun. 

Jejj. “ Even then, under the provocation incident to the con¬ 
tumacious refusal to listen to our Commissioners, and the tortuous 
course of the Government of the United States, 

I was sincerely anxious 
To avoid the effusion of blood, 

and directed a proposal to be made to the Commander of Fort 
Sumter, who had avowed himself to be nearly out of pro¬ 
vision,— 

That we would abstain from directing our fire on Fort Sum¬ 
ter, if he would promise not to open fire on our forces, unless 
first attacked. This proposal was refused, and the conclusion 
was reached, that the design of the United States was to place 
the besieging force at Charleston, between the simultaneous fire of 
the Fleet and the Fort. 


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There remained, therefore, no alternative , 

But to direct that the Fort 
Should at once be reduced. 

This order was executed by Gen. Beauregard, and although 
the bombardment lasted thirty-three hours, our Flag did not 
wave over its battered walls, until after the appearance of the 
hostile Fleet off Charleston. 

Not only does every event connected with the siege reflect the 
highest honor on South Carolina, but the forbearance of her peo¬ 
ple and of the Confederate Government, of making any harsh 
use of a victory obtained under circumstances of such peculiar 
provocation, attest to the fullest extent, the absence of any pur¬ 
pose, beyond securing their own tranquillity, and the sincere 
desire, to avoid the calamities of war.” 

Bishop. One more inquiry, Mr. Davis : tell me in the candor 
of your heart, is it Peace or Conquest you desire ? 

Jeff.. “We feel that our cause is just and holy ; 

We Profess Solemnly, 

In the Face of All Mankind, 

That We Desire Peace 
At any Sacrifice, 

Save that of Honor and Independence. 

We seek no conquest—no aggrandizement—no concession of any 
kind, from the States, with which we were lately Confederated. 
All we ask is To Be Let Alone : That those who never held 
power over us, should not now attempt our subjugation by arms. 
This we will, this we must resist, to the direst extremity. 

The moment that this pretension is abandoned, the sword will 
drop from our grasp ; and we shall be ready to enter into trea¬ 
ties of amity and commerce, that cannot but be mutually bene¬ 
ficial. 

So long as this pretension is maintained, with a firm reliance 
on that divine power which covers with its protection the just 
cause, we will continue to struggle for our inherent Right to 
Freedom, Independence, Self Government.” 

Fellow Freemen, from the foregoing facts, (I challenge the 
world to show that they are not facts) it is evideut that Lincoln 


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& Co. are responsible for the secession of the South, and the bar* 
barous war in our Land. Equally positive is it that upon the 
overthrow of Mr. Lincoln and the election of Gen. McClellan to 
the Presidency, “the sword will drop from Southern grasp,”and 
that the North and South will be re-united, sooner or later, by 
“ treaties of amity and commerce, that cannot but be mutually 
beneficial.” 

So if it is Peace you want—if it is the Union of all the States 
upon the Constitutional basis, and not the Subjugation of the 
South, then prove your honor, your integrity, and your patriot¬ 
ism by working and voting for the only Constitutional candi¬ 
date,—who only can save our Country from utter ruin— 

Gen. George B. McClellan. 

THE THIRD FACT 

that the Republican Leaders are responsible for the war ; name¬ 
ly, their unanimous rejection of 

The Crittenden Compromise 
and the great Peace Convention. 

The Crittenden Compromise was satisfactory to the conserva¬ 
tive masses North and South. 

Nevertheless the Republican Leaders opposed it and voted it 
down. 

On the 3d of March, 1861, one day before the adjournment 
of Cougress, the final vote on the Crittenden Compromise was 
taken in the Senate. 

Who voted For and who Against it ? 

This will show you clearly who are the friends of the Govern¬ 
ment we were born under, and for whom our forefathers died. 
Every Southern Senator, 

And Every Democrat Senator, 

Voted FOR It. 

Every Republican Senator 
Voted AG AINST It. 

So, you see, all along, these ungodly Republican-Abolitionists 
did their best to dissolve the Union and to keep it dissolved. 


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There was considerable proof that the adoption of the Crit¬ 
tenden Resolutions would have prevented any further secessions, 
and saved our Nation from the terrible miseries inflicted upon her 
by the war. 

They were endorsed by 

Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina. 

Senator Pugh 

of Ohio, said : “ The Crittenden Resolutions would have carried 
an immense majority of all the States.” 

Jefferson Davis 

even, whom the Abolition Teachers call the Arch-Traitor, went 
in for the Crittenden Resolutions to save our land from the hor¬ 
rors of civil war. 

Senator Pugh of Ohio, said, “ I heard Jefferson Davis offer 'to 
maintain the Compromise ‘ if it received the support it ought to 
receive from the opposite side.’” Mr. Davis further said, “ It 
will be a bitter pill for the South to yield the right to carry its 
property into all the common territory of the Country ; but I 
will unite in the effort to avert a revolution .” 

. These were also the sentiments of Hon. Mr. Toombs of 
Georgia. Also 

Senator Douglas of Illinois. 

He said : “ While the Crittenden Compromise is not exactly 
in accordance with my own cherished views, I would have sus¬ 
tained it.” And added : “There is disunion North as well as 
South. There are men North whose hostility to slavery is strong¬ 
er than their attachment to the Constitution. They would sac¬ 
rifice the one to the other. They are opposed to compromises 
and all efforts at conciliation. They are striviug to break up 
•the Union while pretending to it devotion ; seeking to destroy 
the Constitution while professing for it undying attachment.” 

Noble Freemen, these are facts in history. Oh, remember 
when you go to the Polls next November, 

That the Crittenden Compromise 
would have saved our Nation from the disgrace of secession, and 
from the horrors of war. Remember, also, 


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That Jefferson Davis u offered to maintain it—to avert a 
revolution 

That Senator Toombs of Georgia, was favorable to it ; 

That the principal Southern States endorsed it; 

That every Southern Senator and every Democrat Senator 
voted for it ; 

That every Republican Senator voted against it; 

That a two-third vote would have saved all the States except 
South Carolina ; 

That it was the fault of the Republican Leaders that it did 
not pass ; 

That they are therefore responsible for the war, and all its 
calamities ; 

That you are not worthy your Independence—that you will 
deserve to be drafted, and share the direful calamities of this 
barbarous Abolition war, if you give your influence and your vote 
to re-elect Mr. Lincoln & Co., the founders of our misfortunes, 
to rule and ruin our Lovely Land, with the iron rod of Despot¬ 
ism, for another Bloody Term of Four Years ! 

The Peace Convention. 

The result of this Convention you know ; I aim merely to re¬ 
mind you that an almost endless variety of propositions for set¬ 
tlement were presented, only to be 

IGNOMINIOUSLY REJECTED 
BY THE REPUBLICAN LEADERS, 

Who were Bent on Defeating 

Every Measure that Savored of Peace. 

It was at this time that Chandler, of the Republican Party, 
addressed Gov. Blair, of Michigan, saying : 

“ Without a Little Blood Letting, 

This Union Would Not Be Worth a Rush.” 

Such contempt for THE Union was never exhibited by 
Southern Senators or Northern Democrats ; and I doubt whether 
there is in all Dixie a more desperate Traitor than this notorious 
Chandler. And his colleagues are not generally a whit better. 


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PEACE, PEACE, PEACE, 
was again the yearning cry of the entire South. 

At the extra session of the Confederate Congress, convened 
on 4th July, 1861, Jeff. Davis issued an appeal, in which he used 
the following peaceful lauguage : 

“ The Policy of the Confederate States 
Is Peace, 

It Cannot But Be Peace,— 

Peace With All Nations and People. 

I would readily entertain any proposition from the Government 
of the United States 

Tending to a Peaceful Solution 
of the present difficulties .” 

With these facts before us, how can we, as faithful citizens of 
America, exonerate the Republican Leaders from the fearful 
responsibility of this war ? 

It was in their power to decide whether our national difficul¬ 
ties were to be settled amicably, or by the sword, and shed 
blood of our countrymen. They preferred the latter, and it is 
therefore our duty to hold them responsible for the consequences, 
in the face of God, in the face of man, and in the face of history. 
And if they fail to accomplish the restoration of the Uniou, the 
judgment of God,—of humanity,—and all succeeding genera¬ 
tions will be against them forever. 

WHO STRUCK THE FIRST BLOW ? 

I have clearly proved that the Lincoln-League caused the war, 
and virtually struck the first blow. 

Of course, I acknowledge that the South fired the first gun, 
and I now propose to prove from Mr. Seward’s own words,— 
delivered in his speech in front of his own residence at Washing¬ 
ton, in July last,—that Lincoln & Co. provoked the South to 
“ Strike the first blow.” 

Mr. Seward seemed to be not a little elated at the piece of 
sharp practice by which he—the Administration—compelled the 
South to fire the first gun, in order to give the war in the eyes 
of tho North the aspect of having been begun by the South. 

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Mr. Seward said : 

“ When war was inevitable, I thought it my duty, as a patriot 
and a Christian, to take care that it should be begun, not by the 
friends of the Union, but by its enemies, so that we should be 
maintaining the Union in righteous self-defence.” 

From that remark .we learn, that if the South had not fired 
the first gun, the North would, because, as Mr. Seward said, 
“ war was inevitable ”—that is to say, war had to come, and 
one or the other party had to commence it. Now, as it was the 
luck of Lincoln & Co. to so play their cards as to compel the 
South to fire first, wherein are they better than Davis & Co. ? 
If Mr. Davis had not struck the first blow, Mr. Lincoln would— 
would because “ the war was inevitable.” 

Let us not, then, censure and condemn the Southern people 
for firing the first gun ; but put the blame where it belongs— 
on Lincoln, Seward & Co., who compelled them to do it. 

Dead the above remarks of Mr. Seward again, and you will 
see that he claims to have acted the part of “ a patriot and a 
Christian ” in the game he played in forcing the South to com¬ 
mence hostilities. 

If Mr. Seward and his colleagues had been patriots, there 
would have been no occasion for fighting on either side. And 
as to his having performed his part as a “ Christian,” that is|?n>- 
fanity and an insult to the Immaculate Saviour. 

The Cincinnati Enquirer says : “ Southern historians of the 
war publish notes and dispatches from Mr. Seward, showing 
that in doing so he deceived and stooped to falsification. His 
labors in that behalf were not the work of a high-toned and hon¬ 
orable statesman, but of a party charlatan pettifogger ; a vain 
and tricky man, who was not only capable to stoop to dishonor¬ 
able practices, but was not above the poor vanity to boast of 
his performances. 

As a Christian and a patriot, Mr. Seward not only hum¬ 
bugged the South, and bragged about it, but he humbugged the 
North also. He did not seem to be aware, in his speech at 
Washington, that he was destroying all the virtue of the claim, 
based upon the fact that the South struck the first blow by 


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showing that it was struck by his procurement. lie thought it 
his duty, as a patriot and a Christian, to press the South into 
such a position that it must strike ; thereby showing that the 
wanton and premeditated insult, of which so much has been 
made, was simply an act done under a necessity which he hint- 
self had created. And it was this which Mr. Seward, in sub¬ 
stance, told the people of the North, and wanted the sagacity 
and self-respect to refrain from telling. And it is this man, who 
seems to be endowed with precisely the qualities requisite for a 
pettifogger at a crossroads, that some call by the name of 
statesman !” 


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CHAPTER TENTH. 

The Lincoln Platform. 

What it was to accomplish.—Confession of Rev. H. W. Beecher.—The 
argument that Mr. Lincoln had no intention of interfering with Slavery 
in the States, exploded. 

We have heard every day since the commencement of this 
unholy war, that the South had no pretext for seceding, as 
“ Honest Old Abe ” had no intention of interfering with slavery 
in the slave States—that the platform aimed simply at the non¬ 
extension of slavery. 

I will now prove, by the chief organ of the Lincoln Party, 
Rev. Henry W. Beecher, 

that the ultimatum of the Platform was the overthrow of slavery 
in the slave States, and that the South, therefore, are not so 
censurable for the war as the Abolition Traitors, who attained 
to power by assuming the name Republican, and Tby a thousand 
deceptions practised upon the good nature of the confiding masses 
of our Country. 

In Mr. Beecher’s first discourse after the election of Mr. Lin¬ 
coln, he alluded to the Territory question embraced in the Chi¬ 
cago Platform, and portrayed the peculiar advantages, in his 
estimation, that would result from its success, the most promi¬ 
nent of which was 

The Extinction of Slavery. 

He said : “ Once put a Bound upon slavery, and then her 
Extinction was simply a question of time, and not of fact; 
for the nature of slavery was such that it could only Live, as the 
Nomadic Arab lived, by changing his pasture ground. 

Refuse to play Nomad on the great Western Territories, and 


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Her—Slavery’s—Doom was Sealed. To stand still was 
to Die iu her ease.” 

Now, this cannot be made any plainer by comment, for Mr. 
Beecher has most emphatically shown that non-extension of 
Slavery is Abolitionism, to all intents and purposes, in its most 
horrid form. Indeed, Emancipation would be far more com¬ 
mendable and humane ; because under the latter both the Negro 
and the Master could be provided for against losses and incon¬ 
veniences consequent to it. Not so with the non-extension 
principle—the principle to be carried out by Mr. Lincoln. That 
offers no restitution to the owners, nor protection to the slaves. 
By it Abolitionism was to be accomplished as a natural, una¬ 
voidable, destructive result. Slavery would become “ extinct,” 
“ her Doom sealed,” because “ to stand still is to Die in her 
case.” 

Now no one doubts the legitimate and deplorable results of 
the non-extension principle. Neither did the Southern people 
doubt it. They held the same opinion of Mr. Beecher—that it 
would eventually overthrow their Institutions ; hence, to save 
themselves, they seceded. 

Now I ask, in all candor, who are the most censurable for 
Secession and the War ? The Southern people, who seceded to 
avoid and prevent the horrors of non-extension, or the Authors, 
and Proprietors, and Managers, and Agents of the Non-exten¬ 
sion Platform, who compelled them to secede ? 

Your conscience, untrammeled by party and unmoved by 
shoddy, will answer, the latter. Then, in the name of Hu¬ 
manity, cease fighting the South, and put down the wretched 
Abolitionists of the North. 

That you can do by electing to the Presidency General 
McClellan, whose first and chief step will be, to invite the South 
to lay down their arms, with a solemn pledge that Yankee 
Abolitionists shall no more encroach upon their rights. With 
this assurance, they will accept the proposition, renew their alle¬ 
giance to the Federal Power, and the Union of the States will 
be restored, Inseparable forever. 

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CHAPTER ELEVENTH. 

Constitutional Rights 
Violated by the Republican Leaders . 

If you still need further proof, sincere inquirer, of their infi¬ 
delity to our Constitution and Union, you will please notice 
their measures in all the respective States that have come under 
their control. They 

Violated the Federal Laws : 

Resisted Executive Authority : 

Ignored the Constitution : 

Disrespected State Rights : 

Spurned the Supreme Court : 

Established Institutions to Kidnap Slaves, 

And Enacted Laws to Keep Them. 

They made it a Penal offence for a Slaveowner to attempt 
the recover)) of his property. This they did before they came into 
general power. 

Now see the infringement and tyranny they have practised 
upon individual rights since they have had the control of the 
General Government ! See their arbitrary and illegal arrests ! 

They were sworn to support the Constitution, but they have 
perjured themselves before God and the people. 

Constitution Guarantees. 

If we take a brief view of the guarantees of our Constitution, 
we can better decide upon the manner and extent of their viola¬ 
tion of it. 

The Constitution guarantees “ That Congress shall make no 
law abridging the freedom of Speech, or of the Press, or the 
Rights of the people, peacefully to assemble and petition the 
Government for a redress of grievances.” 


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Now every honest man will admit that Lincoln and Co. have 
palpably violated this guarantee,—in the Suppression of Speech 
and the Press ;—neither of which has been absolutely free under 
their Administration. 

You say, Congress authorized the President to control the 
Press and the affairs of the Country according to his judgment, 
and he is justifiable I That you will see is incorrect ; because 
the Constitution guarantees to you and me, that “ Congress shall 
make no laws, abridging the freedom of Speech or of the'Press.” 
Consequently this very Congress violated the Constitution in 
granting Mr. Liucoln Unconstitutional Power. That Congress 
w r as composed chiefly of Republicans, and entirely ruled by them. 
If they have no scruples about violating the Constitution to-day , 
what protection have we against other and more serious en¬ 
croachments, which they may deem a Necessity to make, upon 
our sacred rights to-morrow ? 

What would you think of a Bishop # who would make a law 
authorizing his communicants to bear false witness,—to steal,— 
to indulge in licentiousness and profanity whenever they con¬ 
ceived a “necessity” for those indulgences? Would his au¬ 
thority make the indulgences right ? Would not the edict 
itself be an abrogation of divine law ? And would not the 
Bishop himself be a great sinner for presuming to grant the 
indulgences ? 

The Bishop and Congress bear similar relations to the People. 
The Bishop finds his law in the Bible, and the Bible guarantees 
that no Bishop nor body of Bishops shall make a law infringing 
upon the consciences and rights of the laity. So the Congress 
finds its law in the Constitution, and the Constitution guarantees 
that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of 
speech, &c. 

So if the Bishop, in transcending his power, is a great sinner; 
and because of his peculiar advantages is a wretch, what shall 
we say of Congressmen who transcended their power—violated the 
Constitution which they were sworn to protect and preserve,— 
and trampled upon the rights of millions of American Freemen V 


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Why we say they are wretches,—and next November will prove 
them “ lost and undone” 

Again the Constitution guarantees “ That the Right-s of the 
people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. 

That the Rights of the people to be secure in their persons, 
houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and 
seizures, shall not be violated ; 

That j no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause, supported 
by an oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place 
to be searched, and the person and things to be seized : 

That no person shall be held to answer for a capital or other¬ 
wise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a 
Grand Jury, except in case arising in land or naval forces, or in 
the Militia when in actual service, in time of war or public 
danger: 

That in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the 
Right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the 
State and District, wherein the crimes shall have been com¬ 
mitted, which District shall have been previously ascertained by 
Law.” 

The Republican Administration has frequently violated these 
guarantees. Through its subordinate Officers it has issued and 
enforced orders ;—limiting the exercise of the Freedom of 
Speech to those only who would slavishly laud its policy and 
endorse its measures. 

“ It has sought to restrain ‘freedom of the press 7 by making 
use of the military power to suppress the publication of public 
journals in faithful States, for the only offense of differing from 
the Administration on measures of public policy of vital interest 
to every citizen. 

It has with indifference, and without rebuke, seen the military 
power attempt to deny the people of loyal States the right 
‘ peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress 
of grievances . 7 

It has permitted the issuance and enforcement of military 
orders preventing the people of the loyal States from ‘ keeping 
and bearing arms . 7 


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It has caused citizens of loyal States, where courts of justice 
were in full and unobstructed operation, to be seized without 
warrant of law, and for pretended offences transported out of the 
State and beyond the districts wherein such offences were charged 
to have been committed. 

It has caused citizens who were not ‘ in the land or naval 
forces, or in the militia when in actual service/ to be held to 
answer for pretended offences * without indictment or present¬ 
ment of a grand jury/ and denied them the ‘ right to a speedy 
and public trial by an impartial jury of the State and dis¬ 
trict wherein the offences were charged to have been com¬ 
mit ted/ 

It has, under pretence of ‘ military necessity/ assumed the 
power and asserted the right to proclaim and extend martial law 
over States where war does not exist, and has suspended the 
writ of habeas corpus in direct violation of the Constitution. It 
has in loyal States pursued, in general, a policy, the direct ten¬ 
dency of which is to render the civil subordinate to the military 
power.” 

The case of the Hon. C. L. Yallandigham is familiar to you 
all. 

Burnside’s proceedings against this distinguished Statesman 
were in direct violation of our Constitutional Guarantees. 

Remember, Fellow Freemen, that the whole proceedings 

Were Sanctioned by Mr. Lincoln, 

while civilized people everywhere, except in our own country, 
condemned the whole proceedings. 

Democracy demands the freedom of speech and press. It is 
the inalienable Right of Freemen to criticise the policy and 
measures of the Administration,—to approve or condemn,—to 
favor or oppose their proceedings, as their judgment may dic¬ 
tate. 

This right has never been denied to American Freemen only 
by the Republican Party. 

Without this right we are the subjects of a Despot. 

But here you put in the plea of “ Necessity.” 

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Necessity ! all, that is the Tyrant’s plea I 

The Republican Leaders plead that it is a Necessity ! 

To violate the Constitution—to save it 1 
To suppress Freedom—to preserve it ! 

Away with such chicanery ! Will you tell me it is a Neces¬ 
sity 

To droivn a man—to save his life ? 

To fracture his cranium—to preserve his senses ? 

To bind him in shackles—to promote his freedom ? 
Necessity ! We are told that Necessity is the mother of in¬ 
vention ! And she really seems to have been delivered of a Ty¬ 
rant Canker, which is already eating out the vitals of the Ame¬ 
rican Constitution ! 


The Home-Bred Right 

of Freemen. 

Daniel Webster, 

the illustrious Statesman and eloquent defender of the American 
Constitution, once said : 

“ It is the ancient and undoubted prerogative of this people to 
canvass public measures and the merits of public men. It is a 
home-bred right, a fireside privilege. It hath been enjoyed in 
every house, cottage and cabin in the nation. It is not to be 
drawn into controversy. It is as undoubted as the right of 
breathing the air or walking on the earth. Aiming at all times 
to be courteous and temperate in its use, except when the right 
itself be questioned, I shall place myself on the extreme boundary 
of my right, and bid defiance to any arm that would move me 
from my ground. This high constitutional privilege I shall de¬ 
fend and exercise within this house and in all places—in time of 
peace, in time of war, at all times. Living I shall assert it, and 
should I leave no other inheritance to my children, by the bless¬ 
ing of God I will leave them the inheritance of free principles 
and the example of a manly, independent and constitutional de¬ 
fense of them.” Such were the sentiments of the distinguished 
Statesman, the Defender of the Constitution ; and they “ still 
live” in our hearts. 


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Resolved, That we recognize the duty of obedience to law and 
support of the Government by every citizen. But we owe and 
will make no slavish submission to any Administration, and will 
yield no blind support to any measures or policy. We will can¬ 
vass them freely, and fearlessly approve or condemn, as our own 
judgment may dictate. And while we acknowledge our duties 
as citizens to the proper authorities within the limits of their 
rightful powers, we shall insist upon all the rights secured to the 
citizen by the same and only sources of those powers, the Consti¬ 
tution and the laws.” 


Mr. Jefferson 

said : “ I am for preserving to the States the powers not yield¬ 
ed to the Union. I am for freedom of religion, and against all 
maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over an¬ 
other, for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the 
Constitution to silence by force, and not by reason, the com¬ 
plaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the con¬ 
duct of their agents.” That is the Democratic doctrine of to¬ 
day. 

THE. GOVERNMENT. 

Every true citizen approves of giving full support to his 
Government, but patriotism forbids that he should recognize any 
obligation to an unholy or unwise Administration of the Go¬ 
vernment. 

The Government and its Administration are two distinct con¬ 
siderations. 

The true citizen who with his whole soul loves his Government, 
may have good reasons for hating the Administration. 

It is possible for very unprincipled men to be elevated to the 
Administration, who would take the advantage of their power 
to overthrow the Government. In such a case it would be the 
duty of every citizen to oppose that corrupt Administration in a 
legal way, in order to save the Government. 

The Democrats believe that the present Administration, is an 
exceedingly corrupt one, tending to the final overthrow of our 
Liberties. Therefore, in order to save our Government, we are 


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in deadly opposition to the Administration, which, God sparing 
our lives, we intend to supplant in a few months’ time, and fill 
their places with honorable and upright men, whose Chief and 
Leader shall be 

GEN. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN. 

This talk about the Administration being the Government is a 
grand cheat, and well calculated to deceive the worthy confiding 
citizens. 

I warn you 1 This is the game. To be loyal you must obey 
the Government. The Government is the Administration. The 
Administration embraces Abraham Lincoln, Seward & Co., there¬ 
fore to be loyal you must obey Abraham Lincoln & Co.l 

This puts you in a bad dilemma. If you fail to come up to 
Mr. Lincoln’s requirements—however austere , illegal and barbar¬ 
ous—you are a Traitor to the Government! So they say. 

On the other hand, if you do submit, then you are a Traitor 
to God, to your soul and your country ! So we believe. 

II Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.” 

According to the Lincoln definition of Administration—that 
the Administration is the Government, and that it is Treason to 
denounce the Administration—the Republican Leaders were all 
Traitors under Mr. Buchanan, as they universally denounced 
him “ a Traitor ,” and the Administration ** thieves and plun¬ 
derers.” 

And they will all be Traitors again, and very soon , as a Demo¬ 
cratic Administration is about to be inaugurated (at the White 
House in Washington, D. C.) with a “ Little Mac” at its head, 
who will give the forthcoming Traitors correct ideas of Adminis¬ 
tration and Government, Treason and Loyalty. 

Now, before you read any further, regale yourself a little with 
three hearty cheers for “ Little Mac,” our next President, and 
as many more as you choose for a “ United Democracy and a 
United Government.” 

Lincoln & Co. and Jeff. Davis & Co. 

Contrasted. 

When we are not personally acquainted with distinguished 


men, we form our opinions of them by their teachings,—except 
we are willing dupes of petty leaders, and foolishly decide upon 
their whims or falsifications. 

Let us now briefly recapitulate the teaching of Lincoln & Co. 
and Jeff. Davis & Co. respectively, and see to which we can ac¬ 
cord the most fidelity to the Government of our forefathers ;— 
the Secessionists of the South, Jeff. Davis & Co., or the Seces¬ 
sion producers of the North, Abe Lincoln & Co. 

First, the teachings of Lincoln & Co. : 

THE FLAG. 

“ Tear down the flaunting lie, the polluted rag.” 

THE UNION. 

“ A league with Hell.” 

“ The Union cannot exist both Slave and Free.” 

“ Slavery or the Union must be abolished.” 

“ The Dissolution of the Union is not a question of conscience, 
but of policy.” 

“I am for Dissolution, and I care not how quick it comes.” 

“We have a right to unmake the Union if we choose.” 

“No Union with Slaveholders.” 

“ This war must lead to Emancipation, or to a Dissolution of 
the Union.” 

“ The old Union is dead.” 

“ The old Union cannot be restored.” 

“ Without a little blood-letting this Union would not be worth 
a rush.” 

THE CONSTITUTION. 

“ The Constitution is a covenant with death.” 

“ The Constitution is the cause of every division, the fountain 
and father of all our troubles.” 

THE GOVERNMENT. 

“ Free the Negroes over the ruin of our Government.” 

“ The Irrepressible Conflict.” 

“ No Compromise, no Conciliation, no Peace ” 


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“ I sincerely hope a civil war will soon burst upon the coun¬ 
try.” 

“ That our streets may run with blood up to the horses* 
bridles.” 

“ The great work of overthrowing Slavery.” 

“ No support of any Administration that permits Slavery on 
any portion of its soil.” 

The Fate of the South. 

“We will grind the pitiful slave Senate beneath the upper 
and nether mill-stones of our power.** 

The Fate of the North. 

“ Exterminate the miserable doughfaces from the North.” 

There, fellow Freemen, you have a small mite of the teachings 
of Lincoln & Co. Does it sound to you like the teachings of 
men who are true to the flag—who love the Union—who would 
obey the Constitution—who would uphold the Government, and 
protect their countrymen ? Everything else but that. Their 
talk is treason, and all their ways are ways of traitors and ty¬ 
rants. These are the men we have had for our rulers the four 
years past. They have disgraced the flag, dissolved the Union, 
violated the Constitution, overthrown our liberties, drenched the 
earth with blood, filled it with widows and orphans, imprisoned 
their countrymen, bankrupted their country, and a thousand 
things else too sad to mention ! And they have the effrontery 
to ask you to vote for them again, that they may go on in their 
works of Treason and Tyranny—of Death and Desolation, an¬ 
other Four long Years ! 

Is it possible that they can wheedle you again into their 
bloody machinations ? Then you will be unworthy your free¬ 
dom, and will deserve to be drafted, or share some other degrad¬ 
ing misfortune. 

Now, noble Freemen, let us look at the teachings of 
Jeff. Davis & Co., 

and see what we can discover of treason in them. 


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THE FLAG, THE UNION, &o., &o. 

“ The glorious Flag of our Fathers which protected alike the 
North and South.” “ Our glorious Institutions.” 

“ The dissolution of the Union was not a desirable thing.” 

“ It is most desirable to preserve the Union of the States even 
with much sacrifice.” 

“ We desire to remain united with our friends in the Forth.” 

“ We should arrange for living in Peace.” 

“ Negotiating friendly relations between the North and South 
for the settlement of all questions of disagreement upon the prin¬ 
ciples of Right, Justice, Equity, and good Faith.” 

“We have separated as a necessity, not a choice.” 

“ Earnestly desire a peaceful solution of the great questions.” 

“ That it is not our wish to injure our late confederates of the 
North.” 

“ Firmly resolved to avoid war if possible.” 

“ Sincerely anxious to avoid the effusion of blood.” 

“We profess solemnly in the face of mankind that we desire 
Peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor and Independence.” 

“ Would readily entertain any proposition from the Govern¬ 
ment, tending to a peaceful solution of the present difficulties.” 

“ Ready to enter into treaties of amity and commerce that can¬ 
not but be mutually beneficial.” 

Reader, I pause to ask, which of the two sounds most like 
treason ? There is no disgracing the flag here. No hard words 
against the Union, the Constitution, and the Government ! No 
threats against the citizens of the Union ! No desire for the ef¬ 
fusion of blood ! No desire for the dissolution of the Union ! 
No threats of extermination ! 

Whatever errors the South have committed, one thing is evi¬ 
dent, they never assailed the flag ; they never libelled the Gov¬ 
ernment ; they never violated the Constitution until they became 
satisfied that the North was determined to set over them a 
Ruler who was an avowed enemy, pledged to exclude them from 
the Territories, and thereby overthrow their domestic Institu¬ 
tions. 


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Now let a stranger, unacquainted with our difficulties, look at 
the teachings of the present Administration, then at those of the 
South, and he will decide the first teachings to be treason, and 
the teachers traitors. 

Yerily the real enemies to our Government are Mr. Lincoln 
& Co., the authors of secession and war. Would that the noble 
Freemen could be aroused to the solemn realities of that fact. 

The Abolition Union. 

The Union Mr. Lincoln’s friends have so much to say about 
and fight about, is not the Union of the days of Washington and 
Jefferson ! Nay, that Union they said is “ a league with death.” 

Here is the Abolition Union that you are asked to fight for, 
and to sustain Mr. Lincoln for ! 

The Union of Involuntary Submission ; 

The Union with States Rights Obliterated ; 

The Union on the Abolition basis ; 

The Union under Abolition proscription ; 

The Union of Masters and Slaves made equal. 

That is the kind of Union Mr. Lincoln wants, and for which 
he asks you to lay down your lives. 

Such a Union is an outrage upon humanity, and an insult to 
the American Freemen ! 

It is plain enough to be seen that they are not fighting for the 
Union that was. Indeed, they are not backward in avowing 
their purposes now. 

His Excellency, Mr. Lincoln, 
to the Rebel Commissioners, July 18, 1864, and 
“ To Whom it May Concern.” 

Mr. Lincoln said : “ Any proposition which embraces 
The Restoration of Peace, 

The Integrity of the Whole Union, 

and the 

ABANDONMENT OF SLAVERY, 

will be received.” 

Does that look like restoring the Union of our forefathers—which 


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they cemented with their precious blood and bequeathed to us as 
a priceless legacy ? 

Did the North in the days of our Fathers, say to the South, 
we will unite our interests and our States on the condition of 
“the abandonment of Slavery 

What was Washington’s condition of Peace and Union ? His 
condition of Union was,—and our Country enjoyed it uninter¬ 
ruptedly for many years—his condition of Union was, the Union 
of the States with , or without Slavery, as each State might de¬ 
termine. 

And that made Peace and Prosperity ; and that, dear friend, 
is the only condition that will make peace now. 

But that is not Mr. Lincoln’s condition of Peace. Tie says : 
Abandon your Institution of Slavery and I will receive you back, 
or we will fight you till the last dollar is spent, and the last man 
is slain ! 

Fellow Freemen, are you agreed to such a Union ? 

Next November will decide that momentous question. 

Yice President Hamlin 

said in his Cooper Institute speech, a few months since : “ We 
have a class of men among us in Maine who very much want the 
Constitution as it is and the Union as it was. Have you got 
them here ? (Voices, 1 Yes.’) I am very sorry indeed that 
they can not have it. It is mere demagogueism, mere clap-trap ; 
it is nonsense—it is not very good nonsense. Why, the Union 
as it was ? If thero are men in this goodly City of New York 
who have any tears over such results, I am inclined to the opin¬ 
ion that they are crocodile tears. If you have got those here 
who have tears to shed over the Union as it was, I think that 
would form a very good sketch for a picture.” 

Ex-Secretary Chase 

said in his Columbus speech : “ The war must go on under the 
present policy of the Administration, even if in doing it we have 
to come to the old revolutionary standard and a thousand dol¬ 
lars for a breakfast.” 


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Hon. Henry B. Stanton, 

of Brooklyn, in a speech to the Loyal Young Men’s meeting at 
Cooper Institute a few months since, said : 

“ Before the war would end, the institution of slavery must be 

destroyed,” 

Further. u That conflict must be fought out if it required 
. Twenty-Five years to accomplish that grand result.” 

General Banks 

said at Arlington Heights : “ This is the End of this Govern¬ 
ment as it Now exists. There will be a reconstruction on differ¬ 
ent principles.” 

Senator Lane, 

in a late speech, said : “ The Constitution as it was is played 
out —its technical definition is the restoration of Slavery, and I 
am ready to see any Kansas man shot down who favors the 
Union as it was.” 


Governor Washburne, 

of Maine, said : “ Slavery must be put down if every New Eng¬ 
land wife has to be made a widow, and every child has to be made 
fatherless.” 

Colonel Stone, 

the newly elected Governor of Iowa, thus declaims : “ I admit 
that this is an Abolition war. It was not such in the start, but 
the Administration lias discovered that it could not subdue the 
South, else than by making it an Abolition war, and they have 
done it ; and it will be continued as an Abolition war so long as 
there is one slave at the South to be made free ” 

Now to call such men Unionists is a libel upon Washington 
and our noble fathers who sealed the priceless Union with their 
precious blood. 

Give us the Union as our forefathers had it, and give the South 
the assurance that such shall be the Union ever, and peace will 
soon be restored to our distracted Country. 


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Noble Workingmen ! 

Many of you helped to make Mr. Lincoln President. You 
did it in good faith, hoping to benefit the race. But you 
have been deceived. Lincoln & Co. have not represented 
you at all. 

By their impolitic and unholy measures they have driven 
from us a large proportion of our citizens, embracing many 
important States. They have involved our Land in fratri¬ 
cidal war ; sacrificed hundreds of thousands of lives ; 
squandered hundreds of millions of property, and have 
plunged us into a ruinous debt, so that bankruptcy stares us 
all. in the face. And you have seen that all this has been 
brought about, not to save the Union, as once they made you 
believe, but to free the negr<3 and virtually enslave the 
Working-classes. 

To effect their ends they have labored long, with the wiles 
and strategies of Satan, to break up the Union. All their Con¬ 
ventions, Mass-meetings, Club meetings, Addresses, Sermons, 
Poetry, Literature, all have tended to a dissolution of the 
Union, a war with the South, the overthrow of our 

Republic, and the Establishment of a Monarchy. 

It is the highest interest of American Freemen, who have 
the Preservation of the Union and our Liberties at heart, to 
join Democracy—the only safe-guard of our Independence—• 
and elect for their Commander-in-Chief, General Geo. B. 
McClellan. 

But you ask, What can Gen. McClellan do ? I answer, 
much —yea a glorious much : 

He will Overthrow Abolitionism— 

He will restore the Constitution— 

He will restore the Union— 

He will restore the Freedom of Speech and Press— 

He will restore the Moral and Civil Dignity of our 
Nation— 

He will restore the Christian Religion—“ Peace on 
earth, good will to men — 


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He will restore our personal security throughout 
our Land— 

He will restore our gold and silver coin— 

He will restore the Habeas Corpus— 

He will restore the right of trial by jury— 

He will restore every thing our hearts can desire, but the 
hundreds of thousands of the fallen husbands and fathers, 
brothers and sons, for whom the W'hole land is bow r ed iu 
mourning ! 

The election of Gen. McClellan to the Chief Magistracy 
will be the signal for a general"restoration of all things that 
constitute a people holy, honored, and happy. 

These great blessings Gen. McClellan will restore to us 
by the Conservative principles of Democracy, which being 
uncontaminated by brute ambition, tend invariably to purity, 
peace, and plenty. 

Union and Peace is the rallying cry of Democracy all over 
the land. What holy and hopeful words ! Who would not 
rally around the banner whose insignia is Union and Peace ! 

Come, then, and give your support to Democracy. She 
will save the Union and restore Peace. These are no idle 
words. The Union and Peace of Democracy are such as 
Washington and our fathers inaugurated. But the Union 
and Peace of Mr. Lincoln is a modern Union—an Abolition 
Union, and Abolition peace—as I have shown you in the 
preceding Chapter. 

The Union compelling the South to submit to Abolition 
Despotism—which means the involuntary submission of the 
South to the Abolitionists, and the general confiscation of 
their property 1 Would this be a Union ? Would this se¬ 
cure Peace ? Verily not. Then come to Democracy. She 
will save the Union and make Peace. It is her cherished 
purpose, and she will accomplish it as surely as the Al¬ 
mighty reigneth. 

The morning light is breaking. The life-imparting and 
soul-animating sun of Independence is dawning upon us, 
and will soon dispel, by his effulgence, the darkness of the 

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night. Resplendent as is the sight, the Union of All the 
States, without any unholy and inhuman hazards, will yet be 
realized. Not by fratricidal blood and deadly strife ; but by 
fraternal kindness and Christian Compromise. Yea, upon 
the divine basis of State Rights and Self-government, Democ¬ 
racy will save our Country. 

What further proof need we that the future of our Land 
will be crowned with peerless brightness and unparalelled 
glory under Democracy, than our prosperity in the past 
Linder her conciliatory and conservative measures ? 

Let me Warn you, 

If the Republican-Abolition Party succeeds in subduing the 
South, on the basis of Abolitionism, as they are aiming to, 
then,—remember it, workingmen—then you will have to 
compete with the labors of four millions of emancipated negroes, 
who will over.-run our beautiful North, depreciate white la¬ 
bor, and degrade the laborer ! 

The Negro will take your places, without the shadow of a 
doubt, at the polls, while the elective franchise will be virtually 
swept away from you ! 

For the mere name of Freedom, the Negroes will vote exclu¬ 
sively for the Republican Abolitionists. Then a Monarchy will 
be established, and your freedom wrested from you and your 
children forever ! 

But it is in your power , Noble Workingmen, to consign the 
Republican Abolition Aristocratic Leaders to everlasting 
shame and contempt. 

Blessed Peace-Makers, 

Men of God, men of humanity, let us go earnestly to work until 
this horrid and heart-rending war is ended, and peace once more 
possess our land. 

To remedy this war, and to prevent the further unnecessary 
effusion of blood, we must remove the cause—that is modern Re¬ 
publican Abolitionism. Never can we have peace until that 
curse is removed f ram the seat of government! 

Neither bullets nor bayonets, nor Greek-fire, nor all the disas- 


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ters of war combined, can ever restore peace to our distracted 
land ! 

The South will never come into the Union under the Abo¬ 
litionists. Therefore the absolute overthrow of the Abolition dy¬ 
nasty, now at the head of Government, is the first thing to be done, 
and that is barely possible, and only possible by a united Democracy 
in the election of General McClellan. 

Do you ask, IIow will he restore the Union ? 

Jgggr* His first step will be a cessation of hostilities, and au 
immediate negotiation for Peace —Peace upon Constitutional 
and personal rights. 

Let the Southern Citizens see us in earnest in this matter, and 
they will hail it as the bright and morning star of Promise and 
of Peace. We will find them, I have no doubt, ready for an 
early and honorable adjustment of the existing difficulties. 

Verily, the success of the Democratic Party is the only remedy 
of our existing calamities, and our only hope for the speedy re¬ 
turn of Peace to our Nation and joy to our stricken hearts. 

Therefore, noble Peace-makers, you who love and would rescue 
suffering humanity, and save our fallen country, it devolves upon 
you once more to fly to the rescue of your sacred rights. See 
to it, noble bulwarks of America—see to it, that you all do 
your part in breaking down the abominable tyranny that is now 
threatening the very existence of our glorious Republic. 

If we fail to unite our energies, Lincoln & Co. will hold the 
reins of Government another Four long bloody years, and only 
Omniscience knows how much longer ! For this ruinous war 
will be carried on, from one generation to the other, till all the 
material interests of our country are irretrievably ruined. Many 
of you will be drafted, and forced, at the point of the bayonet, to 
leave your wives and loved ones—to join the bloody strife of 
Abolitionism—to fall in the battle-field of carnage, only to gra¬ 
tify the wicked rulers of our once happy, but now sadly stricken 
land ! 

Can you be accessory to such useless and barbarous sacrifices, 
to such human debasement, and to such direful and heart-rending 
calamities ? 


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Verily you cannot. O then lay aside your vain aspirations, 
your foolish desires for office, your love of popularity, your use¬ 
less devotion to party—lay them all aside, or rather trample 
them in the dust, and say, I will be a man, I will maintain my 
dignity, I will preserve my honor, I will maintain my rights— 
yes, I will support Christianity and McClellan, and save my soul 
and my country ! 

Is it necessary that I should say more ? Does not everything 
you see, hear, taste and feel admonish you to vote for General 
McClellan ? 

The startling “ 500,000 more P 
The drum-beat of the recruiter ! 

“ The glorious (ah !) news from the army 1” 

The groans and dying of “ 10,000 killed and wounded !” 

The millions of our noblest men who have mortally and mo¬ 
rally fallen ! 

The 10,000 noble prisoners of war, pining and dying from 
starvation and disease ! 

“ The mourners that go about the streets 1” 

The 200,000 spirit-crushed widows 1 
The 800,000 sorrowing orphans ! 

The maimed, diseased and discharged soldiers begging alms 1 ! 
The glorious stars and stripes dript and dripping in broth¬ 
er’s gore ! ! ! 

The Union dissolved ! 

The Constitution violated 1 
The Habeas Corpus suspended ! 

The odious Draft and the crushing taxes 1 
Your inadequate salaries ! 

Your incommensurate wages ! 

Exorbitant prices on all the necessaries of life ! 

Every cup of coffee and the sugar that sweetens it ! 

Every slice of bread and the butter that seasons it ! 

The hat that crowns you and the boots that contain you I 
Your dear wife’s dress and the jewels that adorn her ! 

The costumes of your loved lambs and the toys that amuse 
them ! 


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Every spool of cotton and every skein of silk ! 

The lager you drink and the cigar you regale ! 

Every man who loves his country I 

Every woman who loves her husband I 

Every mother who loves her son 1 

Every Christian that loves “good will on earth and peace 1” 

And angel-heroes, looking down from their golden battle¬ 
ments 1— 

All, all, emphatically admonish the noble working-men, and all 
who would have a Free and Happy Country, to unite their in¬ 
domitable wills, and their unyielding energies, in the overthrow 
of the men who have brought the war and all its horrors upon 
us, and in the elevation to the highest office—in your honored 
and priceless gift—of 

General M’Clellan. 

If successful, our country is saved ; if not, I warn you, our 
Independence will be irrevocably lost 1 Our glorious Republic 
will fall, and upon her ruins will be erected 

The American Monument ! 

Here lies 

A once great and glorious Nation ;— 

Great in the Arts and Sciences — 

Glorious in Freedom and Religion— 

The admiration of the entire world, 

And the terror of Despots. 

She took a fatal disease, 

Introduced by Gt. Britain, 

Pronounced by Surgeons 
Negro-on-the-Brain ! 

Slew the White race 

To Free the Black ! 

Convulsed,— 

Collapsed, 

Died ! 

Infinite Protector, save our Country ! 



